Eurasian Environments
Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History
Erschienen am 6. November 2018
423 Seiten
978-0-8229-8633-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
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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.
Inhalt
- 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
- 4. "The Scourge of Stock Raising": Zhut, Limiting Environments, and the Economic Transformation of the Kazakh Steppe / Ian W. Campbell
- 5. 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
- 8. Models of Soil and Society: The Legacy of Justus Liebig in Russia and the Soviet Union / Mieka Erley
- 9. 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
- 13. Fishing, Settlement, and Conservation in the Russian Far East, 1860-1940 / Mark Sokolsky
- 14. 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
- Contributors
- Index
