Title On arid ground : political ecologies of empire in Russian Central Asia / Jennifer Keating

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) Series Oxford studies in modern European history Oxford studies in modern European history. Contents 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 Summary 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 Notes This edition also issued in print: 2022 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 18, 2022) Subject Russians -- Colonization -- History Human ecology -- Asia, Central -- History Colonial influence Colonization Diplomatic relations Human ecology SUBJECT Asia, Central -- History -- 19th century Asia, Central -- History -- 20th century Asia, Central -- Colonization -- History Asia, Central -- Colonial influence Russia -- Foreign relations -- Asia, Central Asia, Central -- Foreign relations -- Russia Subject Central Asia Russia Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191945397 0191945390

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