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- catalog abstract ""Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by an array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling. Taming the Wild Field expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13302833.
- catalog coverage "Russia History 1613-1917.".
- catalog coverage "Russia Territorial expansion.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by an array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling.".
- catalog description "Frontier colonization -- Enlightened colonization -- Bureaucratic colonization -- Reformist colonization -- "Correct colonization."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Taming the Wild Field expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xv, 239 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801442095 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801473470 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Russia History 1613-1917.".
- catalog spatial "Russia Territorial expansion.".
- catalog subject "DK113 .S86 2004".
- catalog subject "Imperialism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Frontier colonization -- Enlightened colonization -- Bureaucratic colonization -- Reformist colonization -- "Correct colonization."".
- catalog title "Taming the wild field : colonization and empire on the Russian steppe / Willard Sunderland.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".