Willard Sunderland

Taming the Wild Field

Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

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Produktbeschreibung

Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780801442094
• ISBN-10: 0801442095
• Artikelnr.: 22016941

Autorenporträt

Willard Sunderland is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.

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