Was Capitalism the Crisis? Mount Lebanon’s World War I Famine

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  • Graham Auman Pitts Georgetown University, USA

Abstract

Mount Lebanon’s distinctive environmental history accounts for its susceptibility to famine. This study of famine illuminates the legacy of environment and capitalism in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Author Biography

Graham Auman Pitts, Georgetown University, USA

Graham Auman Pitts is a historian of capitalism, food, and famine. He is the co-editor of Making Levantine Cuisine, forthcoming with the University of Texas Press. His current book manuscript considers the environmental history of World War I in Lebanon. After receiving a PhD from Georgetown’s history department, Graham taught history and international studies at North Carolina State University. The Arab Studies Journal, Cahiers d’Orient, and The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association have published his work. He is a visiting professor at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

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Published

2021-01-23

Issue

2021

Section

Spring

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