Table of Contents

List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Introduction

Part One: Correspondence

1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842

Part Two: Johann Cornies’ Archaeological Excavation Reports

Editors’ Introduction
Reports

Appendix I: Genealogy of Johann Cornies’ Immediate Family
Appendix II: List of Correspondents
Appendix III: Glossary
Appendix IV: Chronology

Index

About the Author

Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.

John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Ingrid I. Epp is the former librarian of University College at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

"Volume II of Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe opens a fascinating window on the evolution of Mennonite social, religious, political, and economic life in southern Ukraine in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The extraordinary activity and personality of Johann Cornies comes even further into relief; his correspondence is an unparalleled source for the fine texture of daily economic life and the environmental history of the region."--Heather Coleman, Department of History, University of Alberta
" Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe is a marvelous project. The letters and documents allow us to see firsthand the internal workings of one of tsarist Russia's most interesting and most important non-Russian communities, to explore the settlement and economic transformation of the steppe region, and to analyze the intricate relations between tsarist state agents and the heterogeneous subjects and settlers of the empire."--Nicholas Breyfogle, Department of History, The Ohio State University