Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781501703256
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1501703250
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
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Conclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe DestroyingNote on Archival Sources; Index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0801473470
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801473470
Language:
English
