Nicholas B. Breyfogle is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005), and he is currently completing the book,
"This innovative collection explores the specific varieties and
unifying themes of three centuries of Imperial Russian and Soviet
environmental history. By examining political, economic, and
cultural experiences in the multiple limiting contexts of climate,
flora and fauna, it offers fascinating insights into major themes
in Russian and Soviet history, including empire-building, socialist
construction, industrialization, relations between dominant and
sub-altern groups, and more. Authored by an international cast of
leading scholars, it functions both as an introduction to the field
and a general overview of the latest research." --Brian Bonhomme,
Youngstown State University
"Eurasian Environments not only offers a great diversity of
approaches to environmental history but also displays new ways of
making Russian imperial and Soviet history from the study of human
and nonhuman worlds, local knowledge, cultures, and practices that
reveal the great potential for enhancing multidisciplinary research
in this field." --Europe-Asia Studies
"This kind of expansive and comparative volume, one that tackles
300 years of Eurasia's ecological history under first the Russian,
then Soviet empire, is sorely needed and long overdue in the field
of environmental history." --Technology and Culture
"Whereas many earlier studies of the Soviet environment focused on
national-level policies and decision-making emanating from Moscow
or the capitals of the Soviet republics, the cases presented in
this volume bring to light how societies were transformed and
affected in their interactions with the natural environment. Many
of the essays underscore the tension between imperial goals and the
environmental realities faced by the different populations."
--Erika Weinthal, Russian Review
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