Eurasian Environments

Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History

AvNicholas Breyfogle

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Russian and East European Studies

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-06
Mått:178 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Russian and East European Studies
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822965633

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Nicholas B. Breyfogle is professor of history and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (2005), which was awarded the Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award, 2006; and editor or coeditor of Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History (with Philip C. Brown, 2023); Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (2021); Nature at War: American Environments and World War II (2020); Readings in Water History (2020); Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (2018); and Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (2007). He is also the recipient of the Herbert Feis Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public History from the American Historical Association.

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This kind of expansive and comparative volume, one that tackles 300 years of Eurasia’s ecological history under first the Russian, then Soviet empire, is sorely needed and long overdue in the field of environmental history.