ISBN:
0822986337
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9780822986331
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 401 pages)
Series Statement:
Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Eurasian History (2011 : Ohio State University) Eurasian environments
DDC:
304.20947
Keywords:
Geology Congresses
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Geology Congresses
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Natural history Congresses
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Natural history Congresses
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Human ecology Congresses History
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Human ecology Congresses History
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SCIENCE ; Earth Sciences ; Geology
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HISTORY ; General
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Geology
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Human ecology
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Natural history
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Russia
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Eurasia
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Russia (Federation)
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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