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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Studies in environment and history.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108673075 |