Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotton Growing And Irri...
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Imperial Desert Dreams is not a history of cotton per se. Obertreis is primarily interested in the dreams of political, scientific, and technical elites for transforming Central Asia, its people, and its landscape, but the book goes well beyond a history of ideas and examines the development of infrastructure and the practical consequences wrought by these imperial dreams. Obertreis supplements archival materials from Uzbekistan (a coup in itself, for access to Uzbek archives has been extremely difficult for foreign scholars in recent years) with thorough reading in technical journals as well as memoirs and biographies of the main actors in the drama. She also uses oral history sources, [End Page 645] mainly interviews with members of the last generation of Soviet experts, but surprisingly makes no use of Russian archives. Her argument is placed in a broad, comparative framework that works both ways. It brings insights from the study of modernity and of empires to the Russian case, while placing the Russian and Soviet experience in the histories of empire and modernity. Obertreis banks heavily on James Scott's notion of \"high modernism,\" which she seeks to tweak as she elaborates it through a... 59ce067264
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