Seeds of Power

Onur Inal is the managing director of the TurkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ) of the University of Hamburg and founder of Network for the Environmental History of Turkey (NEHT). His research focuses on the urban and environmental histories of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. Yavuz Koese is Professor of Turcology at the University of Vienna, board member of TurkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ), and president of the Society of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT). He researches the social, economic, and consumption history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Particularly, he is interested in the effects of modernisation and globalisation in the late Ottoman Empire.

• PrefaceALAN MIKHAILIntroduction The Ottoman Environments RevisitedONUR INAL and YAVUZ KOESEPART I. CLIMATE AND LANDSCAPESChapter 1. Searching for the `Little Ice Age' Effects in the Ottoman Greek Lands: The Cases of Salonica and CreteELIAS KOLOVOS and PHOKION KOTZAGEORGISChapter 2. A `Magnificent' Climate: Demography, Land and Labour in Sixteenth-Century AnatoliaMEHMET KURUChapter 3. Producing Grapes and Wine on the Bosporus in the Eighteenth Century: The Testimony of Domenico Sestini SURAIYA FAROQHIPART II. RESOURCES AND ENERGIESChapter 4. Fruits of Empire: Figs, Raisins, and Transformation of Western Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth CenturyONUR INALChapter 5. `It's a Bad Fate to be Born Near a Forest': Forest, People and Buffaloes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century North-western AnatoliaSEMIH CELIKChapter 6. Water Management Issues in an Ottoman Province: The Case of Cyprus in the Seventeenth CenturySTYLIANI LEPIDAPART II. TECHNOLOGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURESChapter 7. Nature's `Cosmopolitanism': Villagers, Engineers and Animals along Terkos Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century IstanbulK. MEHMET KENTELChapter 8. Cesspools, Mosquitos and Fever: An Environmental History of Malaria Prevention in Isma'iliyya and Port Sa'id, 1869-1910MOHAMED GAMAL-ELDINPART IV. IDEAS AND ACTORSChapter 9. The Rice Debates: Political Ecology in the Ottoman ParliamentCHRIS GRATIENChapter 10. Discovering the Nature of the New Homeland: Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) in the Ottoman Empire and in Early Republican TurkeyYAVUZ KOESEChapter 11. Dispossession by Concession: Forest Commons in the Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish RepublicSELCUK DURSUN