[PDF] The Wild Field eBook

Author : Willard Sunderland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1501703242

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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 : Rita Gabis
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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In this first collection of poems, Rita Gabis explores the erotic against a backdrop of the natural landscape, and the wilder inner landscape of the human heart. Sensual, intimate, probing, these poems are concerned with kinship; the quest for self-knowledge and the elemental desire to connect with the world outside of the self. The Wild Field powerfully examines and redefines female sexuality, as the poems consider themes of family, spirituality, conflict and renewal. With a delicate lyricism and an unrelenting boldness the poems celebrate the commonplace details of a physical life.

Author : Rachel Marie Ruiz
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1479598739

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While on a school field trip to the zoo, Harry accidentally allows the monkeys to escape their habitat, and he thinks he can fix the mess using one of his superhero inventions.

Author : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Birds
ISBN :

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A description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Rachel Ruiz
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1479598577

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While on a school field trip to the zoo, Harry accidentally allows the monkeys to escape their habitat, and he thinks he can fix the mess using one of his superhero inventions.