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Taming the Wild Field : Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe /

Taming the Wild Field expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion."--Jacket.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sunderland, Willard, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Taming the Wild Field; Contents; List of Maps; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Steppe Building; 1. Frontier Colonization; The Rus' Land and the Field; The Wild Field and the Tsardom; The Empire and the Steppe; 2. Enlightened Colonization; Reason's Territory; Reason's Process; 3. Bureaucratic Colonization; The Vastness and the Nation; The Bureaucrats and the Settlers; 4. Reformist Colonization; The System and the Peasants; The Pioneers and the Public; 5. "Correct Colonization"; Colonizing Capacities and the Russian Element; The Dwindling Prairie and the Growing Borderland.
  • Conclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe DestroyingNote on Archival Sources; Index.