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100 1 _aBruisch, Katja.
_913779
245 1 0 _aBurning Swamps :
_bPeat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2025.
264 4 _c©2025.
300 _a1 online resource (292 pages)
336 _aText
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337 _aComputermedien
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338 _aOnline Resource
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490 1 _aStudies in Environment and History Series
500 _aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505 0 _aCover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Usage -- Translations and Transliterations -- Glossary -- Archives and Archival terms -- Introduction -- An Awkward Matter and Its Historical Significance -- The Nature of Russia's Fossil Economy -- A History across Scales -- Nature's Wealth and the Intricacies of Language -- Part I Promising Environments: Material Premises of Growth and Power -- 1 Appropriation -- Resource-Making as an Elite Project -- Bureaucratic Visions of Profit and Development -- Coming to Terms with Abundance -- The Limits to Appropriation -- Resources and the Making of the Soviet State -- 2 Mobilization -- Peat and the Rise of Russia's Industrial Metabolism -- Peat Fuel during Russia's Continuum of Crisis -- Into the Electric Age -- Nature's Promise -- Embedding Peat in the Soviet Energy System -- Part II Working Environments: Extraction and the Making of Place -- 3 Exploitation -- Rhythms of Nature in an Industrializing Economy -- Shock of the Old: Cheap Labor, Gender, and Technology -- Extractive Labor in an Unruly World -- 4 Transformation -- Straight Lines across Irregular Territory -- Landscapes of Reproduction -- Place between Patriotism and Deep Time -- Part III Unsettling Environments: Threat, Loss, and Precarity in Russia's Peatlands -- 5 Irritation -- Breeding Disease -- Confronting Smoke and Fire -- The Endless Summer of 1972 -- 6 Revaluation -- Limits to Growth -- Exploited Peatlands as Horizontal Resources -- Toward a New Wetland Paradigm -- Extraction's Uncanny Afterlives -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aThis groundbreaking environmental history approaches Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Tracing the forgotten role of peat in industry and power generation, Katja Bruisch makes a compelling case for foregrounding overlooked places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.
650 _aUmwelt
650 _aWirtschaft
650 _aIndustrie
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650 _aTorf
_967572
651 _aRussland
651 _aSowjetunion
655 _aFernzugriff
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aBruisch, Katja
_tBurning Swamps
_dCambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2025
_z9781009603089
830 0 _aStudies in Environment and History Series
_967564
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=32317016
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