Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe: Settling the Molochna Basin, 1784-1861

by John R. Staples

A regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development. Using a wide variety of sources, including local Ukrainian and Russian archives never before examined by a western scholar, John Staples compares and contrasts how the Mennonites,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802037240
• ISBN13: 9780802037244
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher