The Plough that Broke the Steppes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Plough that Broke the Steppes write by David Moon. This book was released on 2013-02-28. The Plough that Broke the Steppes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. David Moon focuses on the settlement of migrants from central Russia, Ukraine, and central Europe, and analyses how naturalists and scientists came to understand the steppe environment, including the origins of the fertile black earth.
The American Steppes
The American Steppes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Steppes write by David Moon. This book was released on 2020-04-02. The American Steppes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia's steppes to North America's Great Plains.
The Hungry Steppe
The Hungry Steppe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hungry Steppe write by Sarah Cameron. This book was released on 2018-11-15. The Hungry Steppe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime: the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, perished. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society. Through extremely violent means, the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clear boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economy; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. But ultimately, Cameron finds, neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves integrated into Soviet society the way Moscow intended. The experience of the famine scarred the republic and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991. Cameron examines the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting the creation of a new Kazakh national identity and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development. Ultimately, The Hungry Steppe depicts the Soviet regime and its disastrous policies in a new and unusual light.
The Invention of Sustainability
The Invention of Sustainability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Sustainability write by Paul Warde. This book was released on 2018-07-12. The Invention of Sustainability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.
Environmental Humanities in Central Asia
Environmental Humanities in Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Humanities in Central Asia write by Jeanne Féaux de la Croix. This book was released on 2023-08-30. Environmental Humanities in Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to glaciated peaks. The volume brings into conversation scholarship from history to social anthropology, demonstrating the contribution that interdisciplinary and engaged research offers to many urgent issues in the region: from the history of conservationism to the tactics of environmental movements, from literary engagements with ‘pure nature’ to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. The collection focuses on the Central Asian republics of the former USSR, where a complex layering of nomadic and sedentary, Turkic and Persianate, Islamic and Soviet cultures ends up affecting human relations with distinct environments. Featuring state-of-the-art contributions, the book enquires into human-environment relations through a broad-brush typology of interactive modes: to extract, protect, enspirit and fear. Broadening the scope of analysis beyond a consideration of power, the authors bring into focus alternative local cosmologies and the unintended consequences of environmental policy. The volume highlights scholarship from within Central Asia as well as expertise elsewhere, offering readers diverse modes of knowledge-production in the environmental humanities. This book is an important resource for researchers and students of the environmental humanities, sustainability, history, politics, anthropology and geography of Asia, as well as Soviet and Post-Soviet studies.
