Format:
1 Online-Ressource (258 p)
ISBN:
9780801442094
Content:
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
Content:
The Dwindling Prairie and the Growing Borderland -- Conclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe Destroying -- Note on Archival Sources -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501703256
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801442094
Additional Edition:
Print version Sunderland, Willard Taming the Wild Field : Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2016 ISBN 9780801442094
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Bookmarklink
