Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe : : Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835 / / ed. by Harvey L. Dyck, John R. Staples, Ingrid I. Epp.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the eas...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (632 p.) :; 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translator's Note
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Correspondence, 1812-1836
  • 1812-1823
  • 1824
  • 1825
  • 1826
  • 1827
  • 1828
  • 1829
  • 1830
  • 1831
  • 1832
  • 1833
  • 1834
  • 1835
  • 1836
  • Part Two: Reports and Studies by Johann Cornies
  • Editors' Introduction
  • I. The Nogai Tatars in Russia
  • II. The Doukhobors of the Molochnaia Area
  • III. Survey of the History and Conditions of the German Colonists Settled on the Right Bank of the Molochnaia River
  • IV. The Molokan Sect in the Molochnaia
  • Appendix I: Genealogy of Johann Cornies' Immediate Family
  • Appendix II: List of Correspondents
  • Appendix III: Glossary
  • Appendix IV: Chronology
  • Index