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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Autor principal: Peterson, Maya K. (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Col·lecció:Studies in environment and history.
Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108673075