The American Steppes

Author : David Moon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107103606
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Steppes written by David Moon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia's steppes to North America's Great Plains.

Author : David Moon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882862
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Steppes written by David Moon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants, in particular grain and fodder crops, trees and shrubs, as well as weeds. Following their example, and drawing on the expertise of émigré Russian-Jewish scientists, the US Department of Agriculture introduced more plants, agricultural sciences, especially soil science; and methods of planting trees to shelter the land from the wind. By the 1930s, many of the grain varieties in the Great Plains had been imported from the steppes. The fertile soil was classified using the Russian term 'chernozem.' The US Forest Service was planting shelterbelts using techniques pioneered in the steppes. And, tumbling across the plains was an invasive weed from the steppes: tumbleweed. Based on archival research in the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, this book explores the unexpected Russian roots of Great Plains agriculture.

Author : David Moon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107103606
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Steppes written by David Moon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia's steppes to North America's Great Plains.

Author : Michael Bone
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604694653
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steppes written by Michael Bone and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steppes—semi-arid biomes dominated by forbs, grasses, and grass-like species, and characterized by extremes of cold and heat—occupy enormous areas on four continents. Yet these ecosystems are among the least studied on our planet. Given that the birth and evolution of human beings have been so intimately interwoven with steppe regions, it is amazing that so few attempts have been made to compare and quantify the features of these regions. In this ground-breaking volume, five leading voices in horticulture—all staff members of Denver Botanic Gardens—examine the plants, climate, geology, and geography of the world’s steppes: central Asia, central and intermountain North America, Patagonia, and South Africa. Drawing upon their first-hand experience, the writers illuminate the distinctive features of each region, with a particular emphasis on the striking similarities between their floras. Each chapter includes a primer of species of horticultural interest—a rich resource for readers with an interest in steppe plants.

Author : David Moon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199556431
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plough that Broke the Steppes written by David Moon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. David Moon focuses on the settlement of migrants from central Russia, Ukraine, and central Europe, and analyses how naturalists and scientists came to understand the steppe environment, including the origins of the fertile black earth.

Author : Willard Sunderland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703242
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taming the Wild Field written by Willard Sunderland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching 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.

Author : James Naumburg Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Steppes written by James Naumburg Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Fox
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of the Steppes written by Ralph Fox and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 460 pages
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Author : George Chapman Caldwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1122 pages
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Download or read book The American Chemist written by George Chapman Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: