Imperial desert dreams : : cotton growing and irrigation in Central Asia, 1860-1991 /

Imperial desert dreams : : cotton growing and irrigation in Central Asia, 1860-1991 / / Julia Obertreis.

Officials, engineers, and scientists of the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union planned to expand and modernize irrigation systems and cotton cultivation in Central Asia. The study, which examines contemporary Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, emphasizes the discursive and political continuities ac...

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Superior document:Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas : Band 8
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Obertreis, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:Göttingen, [Germany] : : V&R unipress,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas : Band 8
Cultural and Social History of Eastern Europe ; Band 8
Physical Description:1 online resource (537 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I Russian colonial rule i Turkestan, 1860-1917
  • II Soviet nation-building and Stalinism, 1917-1944
  • III High modernism in Central Asia, 1945-1969
  • IV a time of crisis, 1970-1991
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • List of maps and illustrations
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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