Willard Sunderland

Taming the Wild Field

Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traverses 1000 years of history to recount the epic story of Russia's expansion into the steppe region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CORNELL UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780801473470
• ISBN-10: 0801473470
• Artikelnr.: 22418531

Autorenporträt

Willard Sunderland

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Steppe Building1. Frontier Colonization
The Rus' Land and the Field
The Wild Field and the Tsardom
The Empire and the Steppe2. Enlightened Colonization
Reason's Territory
Reason's Process3. Bureaucratic Colonization
The Vastness and the Nation
The Bureaucrats and the Settlers4. Reformist Colonization
The System and the Peasants
The Pioneers and the Public5. "Correct Colonization"
Colonizing Capacities and the Russian Element
The Dwindling Prairie and the Growing BorderlandConclusion: Steppe Building
and Steppe DestroyingNote on Archival Sources
Index