The Grasslands of North America and Russia

David Moon

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

7 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Companion to Global Environmental History
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages245-262
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9781444335347
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sep 7 2012

Keywords

  • Cunfer's use of GIS, for data on the entire Great Plains region
  • Drivers of change and environmental transformations
  • Dust storms, unsuitable/suitable lands using improper methods
  • Mikhail Sholokhov's turgid novel Virgin Soil Upturned
  • The "Dust Bowl" of the US in 1930s, and famine on the Russian steppes
  • The "Dust Bowl," the US Resettlement The Plow that Broke the Plains
  • The grasslands of North America and Russia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities(all)

Access to Document

Activities

  • 1 Oral presentation

‘The American Steppes: The Unexpected Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, c. 1870- c.1940’, Humanities/ Eurasian Studies Reading Circle, Nazarbayev University

David Gerard Moon (Speaker)

Sep 4 2018

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Cite this

Moon, D. (2012). The Grasslands of North America and Russia. In A Companion to Global Environmental History (pp. 245-262). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118279519.ch14