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On Arid Ground by Jennifer Keating, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Jennifer Keating

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On Arid Ground by Jennifer Keating, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
On Arid Ground by Jennifer Keating, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Jennifer Keating

On Arid Ground by Jennifer Keating, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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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. It reveals for the first time a comprehensive assessment of theenvironmental imprint of Russian colonisation, and shows how local ecologies fitted into broader repertoires of imperial rule, accommodation, and resistance. Ranging widely above and below the surface in Turkestan, from the deserts of Transcaspia to the highlands and lowlands of rural Fergana andSemirech'e, Jennifer Keating explores infrastructure development, migrant settlement, land reclamation and dispossession, the commodification of nature, and environmental violence to reveal the ways in which ecological change was central to the building and breaking of empire. Attentive toconnections, synchronicities and scale, On Arid Ground makes the case for looking beyond cotton and water in Central Asian context, for the powerful material role played by animals and plants, sand, silt, and salt in human histories, and for the less visible relationships between far-flung peopleand things within and beyond Turkestan's borders. Laying bare the political roots and repercussions of environmental change, the volume brings fresh perspectives both to the history of Central Asia and to that of the wider Russian empire across Eurasia. | On Arid Ground by Jennifer Keating, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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