On Arid Ground : Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia
On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2022
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Oxford Studies in Modern European History Ser.
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| Schlagworte: | Russians Human ecology Colonization Human ecology-Asia, Central-History Asia, Central-Foreign relations-Russia Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916. Cover -- On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Archives -- Publications and Bibliographical Information -- Departments and Commissions -- Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Translation -- Introduction: Towards a Political Ecology of Aridity -- Politics, Ecology, and Empire -- Arid Outlooks -- Rule and Resource -- Structure, Sources, and Voices -- 1: The Magical Iron Band -- Railway-Buildingas Environmental Endeavour -- Physical and Imaginative Impacts of Rail -- Confronting Life without Rails -- 2: (Re)Claiming Shade, Roots, and Water -- Unstable Environments -- Irrigation Dreams, Murgab Realities -- From Reclamation to Degradation -- 3: Rural Settlement and the Question of Surplus -- Green Building -- The Profile of Rural Settlement -- Realities, Obstacles, and Tensions -- Sophistry and Surplus -- 4: Ecological Afterlives and Natural Tribute -- The Contours of Commodities -- Value, Abundance, and Tribute -- Resource Spectaculars -- Translating Nature -- 5: Revisiting the Commodity Frontier -- A Trip Underground -- Hidden Commodities and International Chains -- Bioprospecting Goes Global -- 6: Ecologies of War and Revolt -- The Wartime Levy -- War Gives Way to Revolt -- Violent Landscapes -- Retaliation and Ruin on the 'Turkestan Front' -- Conclusion: Central Asian Environments in the Age of Empire -- Glossary -- Major Place Names and Their Modern Equivalents -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Published collections of archival documents -- Journals, periodicals, and newspapers -- Published primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780192667502 0192667505 9780192855251 0192855255 |