{"product_id":"eurasian-environments-nature-and-ecology-in-imperial-russian-and-soviet-history-9780822965633","title":"Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History","description":"Through a series of essays, \u003ci\u003eEurasian Environments\u003c\/i\u003e 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. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. \u003ci\u003eEurasian Environments\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist\/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas B. Breyfogle\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at The Ohio State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), which was awarded the Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award, 2006; and editor or coeditor of \u003ci\u003eHydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History \u003c\/i\u003e(with Philip C. Brown, 2023);\u003ci\u003e Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History\u003c\/i\u003e (2021); \u003ci\u003eNature at War: American Environments and World War II\u003c\/i\u003e (2020); \u003ci\u003eReadings in Water History\u003c\/i\u003e (2020); \u003ci\u003eEurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History\u003c\/i\u003e (2018); and \u003ci\u003ePeopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). He is also the recipient of the Herbert Feis Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public History from the American Historical Association.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985408753938,"sku":"9780822965633","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0190f15c-5223-4edf-b097-b63f8e4cb13e.jpg?v=1769533657","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eurasian-environments-nature-and-ecology-in-imperial-russian-and-soviet-history-9780822965633","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}