Thesis ID: CBB795090986

Science and the Steppe: Agronomists, Nomads, and the Settler Colony on the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917 (2019)

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In the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian officials and scientists undertook a project of exploiting the Kazakh Steppe to turn it into an agricultural breadbasket. However, this project ran into difficulties both among the indigenous nomadic Kazakh population and with the challenges of farming in a new environment. Therefore, officials and scientists turned to another group to attempt to transform the steppe, peasant settlers from European Russia. While they did not fully overcome the challenges and achieve their most extreme visions for the steppe, this process that included demographic, scientific, and economic changes would have far reaching affects on the story of Kazakhstan down to the present day.

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Authors & Contributors
Roberto Lorenzetti
Ashby, Jack
Aso, Michitake
Eamon, William C.
Loskutova, M. V.
Gago, Maria Do Mar
Journals
Agricultural History
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Journal of Global History
American Historical Review
Archives of Natural History
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Publishers
The University of North Carolina Press
Cierre edizioni
University of Pennsylvania
Universidade de Lisboa
Brepols
Cornell University Press
Concepts
Agriculture
Colonialism
Agronomy
Science and society
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Plantations
People
Strampelli, Nazareno
Margulis, Lynn
Zilsel, Edgar
Allport, Morton
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
Italy
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Caribbean
India
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