An Environmental History Of Russia
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Author | : Paul Josephson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521869587 |
This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.
Author | : Andy Bruno |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-04-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110714471X |
This in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.
Author | : Nicholas Breyfogle |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822986337 |
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.
Author | : Alexandra Bekasova |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912186167 |
This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through case studies of specific places in northwestern Russia, for example the Solovetskie Islands, the Urals, Siberia, in particular Lake Baikal, and the Russian Far East, the book highlights the importance of local environments and the specificities of individual places and spaces in understanding the human-nature nexus. This focus is accentuated by the fact that the authors have considerable, first-hand experience of the places they write about that complements and supplements their research in textual sources.
Author | : Jonathan Oldfield |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317366328 |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the very rich thinking about environmental issues which has grown up in Russia since the nineteenth century, a body of knowledge and thought which is not well known to Western scholars and environmentalists. It shows how in the late nineteenth century there emerged in Russia distinct and strongly articulated representations of the earth’s physical systems within many branches of the natural sciences, representations which typically emphasised the completely integrated nature of natural systems. It stresses the importance in these developments of V V Dokuchaev who significantly advanced the field of soil science. It goes on to discuss how this distinctly Russian approach to the environment developed further through the work of geographers and other environmental scientists down to the late Soviet period.
Author | : Bathsheba Demuth |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393635171 |
Winner of the 2021 AHA John H. Dunning Prize Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Nature, NPR, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews "A monument to a people and their land… an allegory of the world we have created." —Sven Beckert, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of Cotton: A Global History Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.
Author | : Maureen Perrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521812275 |
An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.
Author | : Alan D. Roe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190914556 |
National parks are perhaps the most recognized environmental protection institution in the world and have long attracted the interest of historians. This is the first academic work on Russian national parks. It spans from the years before the Great October Revolution to the present and examines movements to establish national parks from European Russia to Siberia and the Far East. It is a story of grandiose visions in which Russian environmentalists conceived of ways to alter the state's relationship to nature and of demoralizing disappointment when the lofty ambitions of different park visionaries fell far short of their hopes.
Author | : J. R. McNeill |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2015-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 111897753X |
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Author | : Edmund Burke III |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2009-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520943481 |
Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and water. The wide range of regional studies—including some in Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa, and Western Europe—together with the book's broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and environmental change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of world history. CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke III, Mark Cioc, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards, Lise Sedrez, Douglas R. Weiner