Suchergebnisse

'Allah's Mountains: Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus' by Sebastian Smith is reviewed.

Breyfogle reviews 'Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic' by Thomas Goltz.

'The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times' edited by Richard Hovannisian is reviewed.

"Hydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspectives, the essays in this book address how humans have long harnessed water and sought to contain its destructive power for political, economic, and social ends. Water defines every aspect of life and remains at the center of human activity: in irrigation and agriculture; waste and sanitation; drinking and disease; floods and droughts; religious beliefs and practices; fishing and aquaculture; travel and discovery; scientific study; water pollution and conservation; multi-purpose dam building; boundaries and borders; politics and economic life; and wars and diplomacy. From the earliest large irrigation works thousands of years ago, control over water has involved control over people, as the essays in this volume reflect. The intersections of water and political, economic, and social power historically span international as well as domestic politics and operate at scales ranging from the local to the global. The authors consider the role of water in national development schemes, water distribution as a tool of political power, international disputes over waterways and water supplies, and the place of water in armed conflicts. They explore the ways in which political power and social hierarchies have themselves been defined and redefined by water and its control, how state leaders legitimized their rule both culturally and economically through the control of water, and how water management schemes were a means to impose and refine colonial power."

Russian colonizations : an introduction / Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland -- Claiming Siberia : colonial possession and property holding in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Valerie Kivelson -- Containment vs. colonization : Muscovite approaches to settling the steppe / Brian J. Boeck -- Grant, settle, negotiate : military servitors in the middle Volga region / Matthew P. Romaniello -- Agriculture and the environment on the steppes in the nineteenth century / David Moon -- The "ethic of empire" on the Siberian borderland : the peculiar case of the "rock people," 1791-1878 / Andrei A. Znamenski -- Resettling people, unsettling the empire : migration and the challenge of governance, 1861-1917 / Charles Steinwedel -- Progress or peril : migrants and locals in Russian Tashkent, 1906-14 / Jeff Sahadeo -- Acclimatization, the shifting science of settlement / Cassandra Cavanaugh -- The aesthetic of Stalinist planning and the world of the special villages / Lynne Viola -- "Those who hurry to the Far East" : readers, dreamers, and volunteers / Elena Shulman -- The "planet of one hundred languages" : ethnic relations and Soviet identity in the virgin lands / Michaela Pohl -- Colonizing Eurasia / Alfred J. Rieber

13. Fishing, Settlement, and Conservation in the Russian Far East, 1860-1940 / Mark Sokolsky14. The Tragedy of Captain Ligov: The Imperial and Soviet Literature of Whaling, 1860-1960 / Ryan Tucker Jones; Part V. Bodies and Disease, Health and Environment; 15. Strengthening the Tsarist Empire's Immune System: Environmental Cures along Crimea's Coast of Health / George Lywood; 16. Reshaping the Land, Chasing the Mosquito: Soviet Power and Malaria in Tajikistan, 1924-1938 / Lisa K. Walker; 17. Conclusions: Nature, Empire, Intelligentsia / Douglas Weiner and John Brooke; Glossary; Notes