LEADER 03780nam 2200637 450 001 9910824975803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0324-2 010 $a1-5017-0325-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703256 035 $a(CKB)3710000000656842 035 $a(EBL)4517879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001655214 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16436084 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001655214 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14726199 035 $a(PQKB)11746497 035 $a(DE-B1597)518275 035 $a(OCoLC)994349753 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703256 035 $a(OCoLC)1138964527 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58262 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4517879 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11204945 035 $a(OCoLC)948925764 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4517879 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000656842 100 $a20160513h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTaming the wild field $ecolonization and empire on the Russian steppe /$fWillard Sunderland 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-7347-0 311 $a0-8014-4209-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tMaps -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction. Steppe Building -- $t1. Frontier Colonization -- $t2. Enlightened Colonization -- $t3. Bureaucratic Colonization -- $t4. Reformist Colonization -- $t5. "Correct Colonization" -- $tConclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe Destroying -- $tNote on Archival Sources -- $tIndex 330 $aStretching 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 region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to the north. For the emperors and empresses of imperial Russia, it was a land of boundless economic promise and a marker of national cultural prowess. By the mid-nineteenth century the steppe, once so alien and threatening, had emerged as an essential, if complicated, symbol of Russia itself. Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by a colorful array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling. Taming the Wild Field eloquently expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion. 606 $aImperialism 607 $aRussia$xHistory$y1613-1917 607 $aRussia$xTerritorial expansion 615 0$aImperialism. 676 $a947 700 $aSunderland$b Willard$f1965-$0689395 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824975803321 996 $aTaming the wild field$91238909 997 $aUNINA