Description:
Thinking Russia's History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation's environments...
Brief description:
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).
Review Quotes:
"Thinking Russia's History Environmentally is a work of bold vision, grand synthesis, and fine detail in creative combination by an outstanding team of editors and authors. Making productive use of a growing body of international and domestic scholarship on Russian internal imperialism, infrastructures, industrial pollution, disasters, environmentalists, exotic animals, and natural resources from fish to fossil fuels this rich volume illuminates and opens up to global comparison a history that for a long time seemed both enclosed, enigmatic and exceptional." - Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm