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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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Ispahani, Mahnaz,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1989
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 13 illustrations, 12 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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