Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on People, Places, and Institutions
Introduction
	Environment and Empire
	The Making of Central Asia
	The Irrigation Age: Back to the Future?
	Cotton and the Civilizing Mission
	Sources and Methodologies
1 The Land beyond the Rivers: Russians on the Amu Darya and Syr Darya
	Rivers to the Sea
	A Great Eurasian Waterway
	Customary Water Use
	Irrigating Russian Turkestan
	Muddied Waters
	Conclusion
2 Eastern Eden: Irrigation and Empire on the Hungry Steppe
	A New Irrigator
	Canal Labors
	The ''August Benefactor''
	The August Patient
	A Russo-Asiatic Ruler
	The Legend of the Thirsty Steppe
	Conclusion
3 To Create a New Turkestan: Water Governance in the Irrigation Age
	Bringing Order to the Hungry Steppe
	Managing Water
	White Gold Fever
	Financing Irrigation
	Governing Water
	Restricting Rice
	Conclusion
4 The Land of Bread and Honey?: Settlement and Subversion in the Land of Seven Rivers
	The Valley of the River Chu
	White Coal for White Gold
	Settlers and Nomads
	Crossing Boundaries
	War and Revolt
	Patching Fault Lines
	Conclusion
5 Sundering the Chains of Nature: Bolshevik Visions for Central Asia
	Water Management, Soviet-Style
	Hunger in Turkestan
	Irrigation Reconstruction
	Nationalizing Water Management
	Reforming Land and Water
	Greening the Deserts
	Water Management on Trial
	Conclusion
6 From Shockwork to People's Construction: Socialist Labor on Stalin's Canals
	Taming the Wild River
	The Vakhsh Irrigation Construction Project
	Building a Modern Soviet Socialist Republic
	Constructing Stalin's Canals
	Forging New Soviet People
	Masters of the Valley
	The Legacy of Vakhshstroi
	Making History on the Great Canals
	Conclusion
Epilogue: The Fate of the Aral Sea
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
	Archival Sources and Special Collections
	Historical Newspapers, Journals, and Other Periodicals
	Published Works
		Primary Sources and Document Collections
		Secondary Works
Index