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Jan 2025
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Zozan Pehlivan on climatic shifts behind...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Zozan Pehlivan, assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, on ”The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century” (Cambridge University Press). The book explores how extreme climate disruptions played into socioeconomic shifts and became a major underlying factor behind rising tensions ... Show More
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