Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe
- ISBN-10
- 0801473470
- ISBN-13
- 9780801473470
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-08-03
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Willard Sunderland
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.
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