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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主要作者: Peterson, Maya K. (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
叢編:Studies in environment and history.
在線閱讀:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108673075
書本目錄:
  • 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.