On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916.
On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916.
Following a PhD at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies (University College London), Jennifer Keating was awarded a two-year Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and then a one-year teaching post in Russian and Soviet History at the University of Cambridge. She then took up a permanent lectureship in History at University College Dublin. Prior to taking up the post in Dublin, she taught at University College London, the University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Towards a political ecology of aridity 1: The magical iron band 2: (Re)claiming shade, roots, water 3: Rural settlement and the question of surplus 4: Ecological afterlives and natural tribute 5: Revisiting the commodity frontier 6: Ecologies of war and revolt Conclusion: Central Asian environments in the age of empire
Introduction: Towards a political ecology of aridity 1: The magical iron band 2: (Re)claiming shade, roots, water 3: Rural settlement and the question of surplus 4: Ecological afterlives and natural tribute 5: Revisiting the commodity frontier 6: Ecologies of war and revolt Conclusion: Central Asian environments in the age of empire
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