History
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar
M 2:10-4PM
This course introduces students to recent research on the environmental history of Central Eurasia, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. As a region, Central Eurasia has seen radical environmental interventions under quite different regimes: tsarist, socialist, and capitalist, each carrying its own priorities and visions of extraction, transformation, management, and protection. Environmental history is a relatively recent arrival among the sub-disciplines engaged by historians of the region, and yet scholarship produced over the last decade has already shown us how a focus on the environment makes it possible to approach long standing concerns about empire, colonialism, revolution, and socialist development in new and productive ways. The course will thus offer a new perspective on a region (somewhat) familiar to students in the program, while also helping identify ways in which research on the region could inform ongoing debates in environmental history beyond Eurasia.
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