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Autore |
Ispahani Mahnaz |
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Roads and Rivals : The Political Uses of Access in the Borderlands of Asia / / Mahnaz Ispahani |
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019] |
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©1989 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) : 13 illustrations, 12 maps |
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Soggetti |
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Geopolitics - Asia |
Roads - Asia |
Political Science & Political History |
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian |
Asia Politics and government 1945- |
Asia Strategic aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Routes and States -- 2. Baluchistan and Its Environs: The Motives for Access -- 3. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union: The Price of Access -- 4. The Karakoram and Himalayan Borderlands: The Consequences of Access -- 5. The Politics of Routes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Over the past two centuries, the borderlands of Central, South, and West Asia have been transformed from the remote peripheries into areas of intense regional and international interest. In Roads and Rivals, Mahnaz Ispahani explores the crucial but unacknowledged role that land routes have played in the strategic, political, and economic evolution of those borderlands. |
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