Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. An imperial ecology
  • Regions, resources, and settlement
  • Growth and its limits
  • Disasters of the later sixteenth century
  • Land at the margins : Karaman and Larende
  • pt. 2. The Little Ice Age crisis
  • The Little Ice Age in the Near East
  • The great drought
  • The Celali Rebellion
  • In the wake of the Celalis : climate and crisis in the seventeenth century
  • pt. 3. Ecological transformation
  • Desert and snow
  • City and country
  • Provisioning and commerce
  • Conclusion.