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Eurasian environments :

(Number (ISBN

0822986337

(Number (ISBN

9780822986331

Erroneous ISBN

0822965631

Erroneous ISBN

9780822965633

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Eurasian environments :

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[Book]

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nature and ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet history /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Pittsburgh, Pa. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xx, 401 pages)

Series Title

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Archive and Bibliographic Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1. Toward an Environmental History of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union / Nicholas B. Breyfogle; Part I. Steppe Environments; 2. Planting Trees in Unsuitable Places: Steppe Forestry in the Russian Empire, 1696-1850 / David Moon; 3. "People Arrive but the Land Does Not Move": Nomads, Settlers, and the Ecology of the Kazakh Steppe, 1870-1916 / Sarah Cameron

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13. Fishing, Settlement, and Conservation in the Russian Far East, 1860-1940 / Mark Sokolsky14. The Tragedy of Captain Ligov: The Imperial and Soviet Literature of Whaling, 1860-1960 / Ryan Tucker Jones; Part V. Bodies and Disease, Health and Environment; 15. Strengthening the Tsarist Empire's Immune System: Environmental Cures along Crimea's Coast of Health / George Lywood; 16. Reshaping the Land, Chasing the Mosquito: Soviet Power and Malaria in Tajikistan, 1924-1938 / Lisa K. Walker; 17. Conclusions: Nature, Empire, Intelligentsia / Douglas Weiner and John Brooke; Glossary; Notes

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4. "The Scourge of Stock Raising": Zhŭt, Limiting Environments, and the Economic Transformation of the Kazakh Steppe / Ian W. Campbell5. Desiccated Steppes: Droughts and Climate Change in the USSR, 1960s-1980s / Marc Elie; Part II. Water Engineering; 6. Leviathan on the Oxus: Water and Soviet Power on the Lower Amu Darya, 1920s-1940s / Christian Teichmann; 7. Soviet Irrigation Policies under Fire: Ecological Critique in Central Asia, 1970s-1991 / Julia Obertreis; Part III. Land, Rocks, Soil

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8. Models of Soil and Society: The Legacy of Justus Liebig in Russia and the Soviet Union / Mieka Erley9. How a Rock Remade the Soviet North: Nepheline in the Khibiny Mountains / Andy Bruno; 10. Encounters with Permafrost: The Rhetoric of Conquest and Processes of Adaptation in the Soviet Union / Pey-Yi Chu; Part IV. Fruits of the Waters; 11. The Christian Environmental Ethic of the Russian Pomor / Stephen Brain; 12. Experts on Unknown Waters: Environmental Risk, Fisheries Science, and Local Knowledge in the Russian North / Julia Lajus

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"Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. Eurasian Environments brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written"--

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22573/ctv7r4psq

Title

Eurasian environments.

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9780822965633

Geology-- Eurasia, Congresses.

Geology-- Russia, Congresses.

Human ecology-- Eurasia-- History, Congresses.

Human ecology-- Russia (Federation)-- History, Congresses.

Natural history-- Eurasia, Congresses.

Natural history-- Russia, Congresses.

Geology.

HISTORY-- General.

Human ecology.

Natural history.

SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geology.

Eurasia.

Russia (Federation)

Russia.

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Breyfogle, Nicholas B.,1968-

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