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Decolonization and the arid world
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Fletcher, Robert S. G. (2018) Decolonization and the arid world. In: Thomas, Martin and Thompson, Andrew, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of the ends of empire. Oxford Handbooks Online . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198713197
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Abstract
Empires come and empires go, Shelley’s Ozymandias reminds us, but ‘the lone and level sands’ endure. From the Sahara in the west to the Gobi in the east, a vast belt of desert and semi-desert environments spans the length of the Afro-Eurasian landmass. This great Arid Zone – larger than all other dry areas of the world combined – passes through more than 35 nation-states, most of which became independent of the European and Soviet empires in the second half of the twentieth century. Here, aridity is a climatic fact, with low annual rainfall affecting the density and growth rates of diverse flora and fauna. We might also consider it an historical fact, presenting distinct opportunities and exerting particular pressures on the human societies that have sought to live within and operate through its boundaries. Imperialism and decolonization transformed political geographies; in many ways, they made the world in which we live. Whether the constraints and possibilities of physical geography could be as readily disregarded is another question altogether.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Series Name: | Oxford Handbooks Online | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | New York | ||||||||
ISBN: | 9780198713197 | ||||||||
Book Title: | The Oxford handbook of the ends of empire | ||||||||
Editor: | Thomas, Martin and Thompson, Andrew | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2018 | ||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198713197.001.0001 | ||||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 October 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 August 2019 | ||||||||
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