On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia

ISBN-13: 9780192855251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Assistant Professo Jennifer (Assistant Professor of History

Recenzje

In this excellent work, Jennifer Keating shows that paying close attention to seemingly little things like sand, saxaul, termites, and apples, in addition to more traditional big topics like cotton and irrigation, is crucial to our understanding of the Russian Empire in Turkestan...Keating's book draws heavily on archives in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Almaty. It also engages deeply with the historiography of Russian Central Asia and places it in the context of new global histories of empire and the environment. This makes it a welcome addition to several fields, and of interest to historians not only of Russia or Central Asia but also of imperialism and the environment.

O autorze

Following a PhD at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies (University College London), Jennifer Keating was awarded a two-year Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and then a one-year teaching post in Russian and Soviet History at the University of Cambridge. She then took up a permanent lectureship in History at University College Dublin. Prior to taking up the post in Dublin, she taught at University College London, the University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics.