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Studies in Environment and History Ser.: Pipe Dreams : Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin by Maya K. Peterson (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108468543
ISBN-139781108468541
eBay Product ID (ePID)5050099816
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXxii, 399 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePipedreams : Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin
Publication Year2021
SubjectAsia / Central Asia, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / Eastern, Natural Resources, Public Policy / Regional Planning
TypeTextbook
AuthorMaya K. Peterson
Subject AreaNature, Political Science, History
SeriesStudies in Environment and History Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-052005
Dewey Edition23
Reviews'Pipe Dreams is a thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and highly original contribution to Central Asian and environmental history. Maya K. Peterson tells a story of technology, water politics, and imperial hubris that will be familiar to those who have studied water politics in the American West.' Adrienne Edgar, University of California, Santa Barbara
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal333.91009587
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.
SynopsisPipe Dreams analyzes the transformation of Central Asia's landscapes through tsarist- and Soviet-era hydraulic projects. Arguing that water was a central concern, Maya K. Peterson brings a critical region into view across a long period and engages environmental questions through a rich political and social framework., 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 the belief that universal scientific knowledge, together with modern technologies, could be used to transform large areas of the planet from 'wasteland' into productive agricultural land. Though ostensibly about bringing modernity, progress, and prosperity to the deserts, the transformation of Central Asia's landscapes through tsarist- and Soviet-era hydraulic projects bore the hallmarks of a colonial experiment. Examining how both regimes used irrigation-age fantasies of bringing the deserts to life as a means of claiming legitimacy in Central Asia, Maya K. Peterson brings a fresh perspective to the history of Russia's conquest and rule of Central Asia.
LC Classification NumberHD1698.A783P48 2019
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