Roads and Rivals : The Political Uses of Access in the Borderlands of Asia / Mahnaz Ispahani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ispahani, Mahnaz Z., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Asia.

Geopolitics.

Roads--Asia.

Roads.

Asia--Politics and government--1945-.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 13 illustrations, 12 maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501745911

1501745913

OCLC:

1129171442