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Taming the wild field : colonization and empire on the Russian steppe /
"Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by...
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Ithaca, N.Y. : Bristol :
Cornell University Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor],
2006.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.