By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.
By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Historicizing Permafrost 1. Mapping The Cold of Eastern Siberia Birth of a Scientific Object From Boden-Eis to Eisboden 2. Building Colonization and Construction Building on Frozen Earth The Soil Science of Roads The Ambiguity of Merzlota 3. Defining Merzlota as Aggregate Structure Merzlota as Process Personal and Institutional Politics Vechnaia Merzlota in Bolshevik Culture 4. Adapting From Commission to Institute Rhetoric of Transforming Nature Adapting to Frozen Earth Survival of the Systems Approach 5. Translating Birth of Permafrost Criticism and Self-criticism From Merzlotovedenie to Geocryology The Dialectic Persists Epilogue: Resurrecting Glossary Bibliography
Acknowledgments Introduction: Historicizing Permafrost 1. Mapping The Cold of Eastern Siberia Birth of a Scientific Object From Boden-Eis to Eisboden 2. Building Colonization and Construction Building on Frozen Earth The Soil Science of Roads The Ambiguity of Merzlota 3. Defining Merzlota as Aggregate Structure Merzlota as Process Personal and Institutional Politics Vechnaia Merzlota in Bolshevik Culture 4. Adapting From Commission to Institute Rhetoric of Transforming Nature Adapting to Frozen Earth Survival of the Systems Approach 5. Translating Birth of Permafrost Criticism and Self-criticism From Merzlotovedenie to Geocryology The Dialectic Persists Epilogue: Resurrecting Glossary Bibliography
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