Seeds of Power

• Foreword. Ottoman and Nature. ALAN MIKHAILIntroduction. The Ottoman Environments Revisited. ONUR İNAL and YAVUZ KÖSEChapter 1. Searching for the ‘Little Ice Age’ Effects in the Ottoman Greek Lands: The Cases of Salonica and Crete. ELIAS KOLOVOS and PHOKION KOTZAGEORGISChapter 2. A ‘Magnificent’ Climate: Demography, Land and Labour in Sixteenth-Century Anatolia. MEHMET KURUChapter 3. Producing Grapes and Wine on the Bosporus in the Eighteenth Century: The Testimony of Domenico Sestini. SURAIYA FAROQHIChapter 4. Fruits of Empire: Figs, Raisins, and Transformation of Western Anatolia in theLate Nineteenth Century. ONUR İNALChapter 5. ‘It’s a Bad Fate to be Born Near a Forest’: Forest, People and Buffaloes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century North-western Anatolia. SEMİH ÇELİKChapter 6. Water Management Issues in an Ottoman Province: The Case of Cyprus in the Seventeenth Century. STYLIANI LEPIDAChapter 7. Nature’s ‘Cosmopolitanism’: Villagers, Engineers and Animals along Terkos Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul. K. MEHMET KENTELChapter 8. Cesspools, Mosquitos and Fever: An Environmental History of Malaria Prevention in Ismailia and Port Said, 1869–1910. MOHAMED GAMAL-ELDINChapter 9. The Rice Debates: Political Ecology in the Ottoman Parliament. CHRIS GRATIENChapter 10. Discovering the Nature of the New Homeland: Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) in the Ottoman Empire and in Early Republican Turkey. YAVUZ KÖSEChapter 11. Dispossession by Concession: Forest Commons in the Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic. SELÇUK DURSUN

‘In Seeds of Power, Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse capture how Ottoman environmental history has bloomed in the past decade and offer by far the best guide yet to the methods and issues that dominate the nascent field.’Faisal Husain; ‘an essential contribution to the environmental history of the Ottoman Empire.’ Faith Ermis; ‘… will for years play the role of a yardstick for the subsequent publications in the field.’ Stefan Peychev.