Format: Paperback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780822965633
Pub Date: 06 Nov 2018
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Illustrations: 10 b&w photos, 11 line art illustrations
Description:
Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global.