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Alan Mikhail appointed Chace Family Professor of History


May 10, 2021
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Alan Mikhail
Alan Mikhail, an authority on Middle Eastern history, global history, and histories of empire and the environment, has been appointed the Chace Family Professor of History, effective April 17.
He is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is chair of the Department of History.
In his four books, Mikhail unearths narratives of environmental change and of imperial power previously untold about the Middle East. “Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History” (2011), which was awarded Yale’s Ranis and Heyman Prizes, as well as the Roger Owen Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association, is the first historical work to show how control of natural resources shaped the Ottoman Empire’s role in Egypt. In “The Animal in Ottoman Egypt” (2014), also a winner of the Ranis Prize, Mikhail revealed how changi ....

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Books of the Year 2020 | History Today


Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Author of Valkyrie: Women of the Viking World
(Bloomsbury, 2020).
Neil Price’s
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings is a wide-ranging and engaging account of the Viking Age. Never shirking from the cruelties enacted by the Vikings, Price has a knack for picking up on prosaic details to tell a bold story of a society dramatically different from our own. The Vikings may have been the first Europeans in America but Alan Mikhail’s
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World makes a persuasive case for the importance of the Ottoman empire for the colonial expansion to the Americas in the 16th century. Sultan Selim was moulded by a formidable mother whose ambitions propelled her son to immense power and her political savvy makes her quite as interesting as her son. On the subject of mothers, ....

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