Thinking Russia's History Environmentally
$81.15
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2027
Summary
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 in so doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time frame well beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781807681715 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1807681718 |
| Author: | Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, David Moon |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Environment in History: International Perspectives |
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Critics Review
“Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally is a work of bold vision, grand synthesis, and fine detail in creative combination by an outstanding team of editors and authors. Making productive use of a growing body of international and domestic scholarship on Russian internal imperialism, infrastructures, industrial pollution, disasters, environmentalists, exotic animals, and natural resources from fish to fossil fuels this rich volume illuminates and opens up to global comparison a history that for a long time seemed both enclosed, enigmatic and exceptional.” • Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm
Catherine Evtuhov
Catherine Evtuhov is Professor of History at Columbia University. Her books include Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society & Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod.
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