TY - BOOK AU - Husain,Faisal TI - Rivers of the Sultan: the Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197547304 AV - HD1698 U1 - 333.916209560903 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Water-supply KW - Political aspects KW - Euphrates River Watershed KW - Tigris River Watershed KW - Water resources development KW - Environment and Ecology KW - ukslc KW - Economics KW - thema KW - Turkey KW - Foreign relations KW - Iraq KW - History KW - 1683-1829 N1 - Also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - In the early sixteenth century, a series of military campaigns between the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf brought the entirety of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers under Ottoman control. This book offers a history of this rare political unification of the longest rivers in West Asia and its impact on the Ottoman state, provincial society, and the environment UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547274.001.0001 ER -