Eurasian Environments

Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6563-3
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

Eurasian Environments is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, covering both the Tsarist and Soviet eras, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breyfogle, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas B. Breyfogle is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005), and he is currently completing the book, Baikal: the Great Lake and its People. He is also co-editor of Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (Routledge, 2007) and guest co-editor of Technology, Ecology, and Human Health Since 1850, a thematic Forum in Environmental History (2015). Since 2007, Breyfogle has worked as co-editor of the online magazine Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.