Maya K. Peterson

Pipe Dreams

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Produktbeschreibung

Pipe Dreams analyzes the transformation of Central Asia's landscapes through tsarist- and Soviet-era hydraulic projects. Arguing that water was a central concern, Maya K. Peterson brings a critical region into view across a long period and engages environmental questions through a rich political and social framework.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781108468541
• ISBN-10: 1108468543
• Artikelnr.: 62111783

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.