Roads and Rivals : : The Political Uses of Access in the Borderlands of Asia / / Mahnaz Ispahani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Ispahani, Mahnaz,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 13 illustrations, 12 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Routes and States --; 2. Baluchistan and Its Environs: The Motives for Access --; 3. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union: The Price of Access --; 4. The Karakoram and Himalayan Borderlands: The Consequences of Access --; 5. The Politics of Routes --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745911; 9783110649680; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745911
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mahnaz Ispahani.

Over the past two centuries, the borderlands of Central, South, and West Asia have been transformed from the remote peripheries into areas of intense regional and international interest. In Roads and Rivals, Mahnaz Ispahani explores the crucial but unacknowledged role that land routes have played in the strategic, political, and economic evolution of those borderlands.