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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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
University Presses Marketing [distributor],
2006.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.