Pipe dreams : water and empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin /
The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a time when engineers, scientists, politicians, and entrepreneurs around the world united in th...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Edice: | Studies in environment and history.
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| On-line přístup: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108673075 |
Obsah:
- Introduction
- The land beyond the rivers: Russians on the Amu and Syr Darya
- Eastern Eden: irrigation and empire on the hungry steppe
- To create a new Turkestan: water governance in the irrigation age
- The land of bread and honey? Settlement and subversion in the land of seven rivers
- Sundering the chains of nature: Bolshevik visions for Central Asia
- From shockwork to People's Construction: socialist labor on Stalin's canals
- Epilogue: the fate of the Aral Sea.