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Environment in History: International Perspectives
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Thinking Russia's History Environmentally
Edited by Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon
Afterwords by J.R. McNeill and Sverker Sörlin
360 pages, 30 figures, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-027-5 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (July 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80539-028-2 eBook Not Yet Published
Description
Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. Through discerning analysis of natural resources, the environment as a factor in historical processes such as industrialization, and more recent human-animal interactions, this volume challenges stereotypes of Russian history and inso doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time framewell beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period.
Catherine Evtuhov is Professor of History at Columbia University. Her books include Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society & Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011).
Julia Lajus is Associate Professor at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, where she heads the MA program in Applied and Interdisciplinary History, “Usable Pasts.” Lajus is a biologist by training and an historian of science and technology, who has spearheaded the study of environmental history in Russia.
David Moon is Honorary Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. He has published widely on Russian, Ukrainian and transnational environmental history.