Roads and Rivals
Author | : Mahnaz Ispahani |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501745911 |
ISBN-13 | : 1501745913 |
Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Download or read book Roads and Rivals written by Mahnaz Ispahani and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.