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Loading... Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabiaby Natalie Koch
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"As Natalie Koch demonstrates in this evocative, narrative history, the exchange of colonial technologies between the Arabian Peninsula and United States over the past two centuries--from date palm farming and desert agriculture to the utopian sci-fi dreams of Biosphere 2 and Frank Herbert's Dune--bound the two regions together, solidifying the colonization of the US West and, eventually, the reach of American power into the Middle East. Koch teaches us to see deserts anew, not as mythic sites of romance or empty wastelands but as an "arid empire," a crucial political space where imperial dreams coalesce"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)320.120979Social sciences Political Science Political Science The State Nation and territoryLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |