David Moon is Visiting Professor at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, and Anniversary Professor in History at the University of York. He is the author of The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914 (2013).

'A fresh and significant new perspective on the perception and understanding of the Great Plains of North America in the light of scientific research carried out far away, on the other side of the planet, the Russian steppe country, which turns out to have had many surprising linkages with its North American counterpart.' Donald Worster, Distinguished Foreign Expert, Renmin University of China

• Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 1. Settlement; 2. Barriers; 3. Bridges; Part II. Transfers: 4. Wheat; 5. Soil science I; 6. Soil science II; 7. Shelterbelts I; 8. Shelterbelts II; 9. Tumbleweed; Conclusion; List of archival collections cited; Index.

David Moon is Visiting Professor at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, and Anniversary Professor in History at the University of York. He is the author of The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914 (2013).

'A fresh and significant new perspective on the perception and understanding of the Great Plains of North America in the light of scientific research carried out far away, on the other side of the planet, the Russian steppe country, which turns out to have had many surprising linkages with its North American counterpart.' Donald Worster, Distinguished Foreign Expert, Renmin University of China

• Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 1. Settlement; 2. Barriers; 3. Bridges; Part II. Transfers: 4. Wheat; 5. Soil science I; 6. Soil science II; 7. Shelterbelts I; 8. Shelterbelts II; 9. Tumbleweed; Conclusion; List of archival collections cited; Index.

David Moon is Visiting Professor at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, and Anniversary Professor in History at the University of York. He is the author of The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914 (2013).

'A fresh and significant new perspective on the perception and understanding of the Great Plains of North America in the light of scientific research carried out far away, on the other side of the planet, the Russian steppe country, which turns out to have had many surprising linkages with its North American counterpart.' Donald Worster, Distinguished Foreign Expert, Renmin University of China

• Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 1. Settlement; 2. Barriers; 3. Bridges; Part II. Transfers: 4. Wheat; 5. Soil science I; 6. Soil science II; 7. Shelterbelts I; 8. Shelterbelts II; 9. Tumbleweed; Conclusion; List of archival collections cited; Index.