Taming the Wild Field : : Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe / / Willard Sunderland.
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a reg...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 4 maps, 14 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Steppe Building
- 1. Frontier Colonization
- 2. Enlightened Colonization
- 3. Bureaucratic Colonization
- 4. Reformist Colonization
- 5. “Correct Colonization”
- Conclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe Destroying
- Note on Archival Sources
- Index