Pipe Dreams - Water and Empire in Central Asia''s Aral Sea Basin

A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Maya K. Peterson was the Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Product details

• Authors: Maya K. Peterson, Maya K. (University of California Peterson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108475471
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47547-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Studies in Environment and His; Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Central Asia, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Science, History and Archaeology