Thinking Russia's history environmentally

Introduction / Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon -- Part I. Industrialization and its environmental contexts -- Natural resources and management expertise in the monastic salt industry of the White Sea area in the 16th and 17th centuries / Alexei Kraikovsky and Margarita Dadykina -- Ear...

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Weitere Verfasser: Evtuhov, Catherine (HerausgeberIn), Lajus, Julija Aleksandrovna (HerausgeberIn), Moon, David (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2023
Schriftenreihe:˜Theœ environment in history international perspectives 25
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction / Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon -- Part I. Industrialization and its environmental contexts -- Natural resources and management expertise in the monastic salt industry of the White Sea area in the 16th and 17th centuries / Alexei Kraikovsky and Margarita Dadykina -- Early Russian industrialization : an environmental perspective / Catherine Evtuhov -- Seeing oil : Isaak Levitan and the industrial Volga / Jane Costlow -- Kazan' citizens against air pollution : the case of the Ushkov & Co. Chemical Factory (1893-1917) / Andrei Vinogradov -- "Environing" the North : fishing and hunting in the industrial development of Khanty Mansi Okrug, 1960-1975 / Evgenii Gololobov -- Part II. Humans and animals -- Camels in European Russia : exotic farm animals and agricultural knowledge / Anna Olenenko -- Public health across species : domestic animals and sanitary reforms in Imperial Russia / Anna Mazanik -- Part III. Environment and politics in the late Soviet space / How wetlands entered the transnational spaces of late Soviet environmentalism / Katja Bruisch -- "You ought to love nature!" : peoples' control committees-environmental whistleblowers and West Siberian Oil in the 1970s / Valentina Roxo -- Part IV. Geography and environment past and present -- Empire, settlement and environment : the Russian empire and Donald Meinig's "Macrogeography of Western Imperialism" / Denis Shaw -- Tracks across the tundra : making a living from nature in the borderland of the Russian Northwest / Urban Wråkberg and Peter Haugseth -- Afterwords / J.R. McNeill and Sverker Sörlin
"Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. Thinking Russia's History Environmentally showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. Through discerning analysis of natural resources, the environment as a factor in historical processes such as industrialization, and more recent human-animal interactions, this volume challenges stereotypes of Russian history and inso doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time framewell beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiv, 330 Seiten
Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
24 cm
ISBN:9781805390275
978-1-80539-027-5