Maya K. Peterson

Pipe Dreams

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 834g
• ISBN-13: 9781108475471
• ISBN-10: 1108475477
• Artikelnr.: 54552756

Autorenporträt

Maya K. Peterson was the Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The land beyond the rivers: Russians on the Amu and Syr Darya
2. Eastern Eden: irrigation and empire on the Hungry steppe
3. To create a new Turkestan: water governance in the irrigation age
4. The land of bread and honey? Settlement and subversion in the land of seven rivers
5. Sundering the chains of nature: Bolshevik visions for Central Asia
6. From shockwork to people's construction: socialist labor on Stalin's Canals
Epilogue: the fate of the Aral Sea
Conclusion.