Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology, Orthography, and Transliteration -- Glossary of Russian Weights and Measures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Colonization and Administrative Policy -- 3 Adaptation on the Land-Rich Steppe, 1783-1833 -- 4 The Great Drought of 1832-1834 -- 5 Johann Cornies and the Birth of a New Mennonite World View -- 6 The Path Taken by the Orthodox State Peasants: Land Repartition -- 7 Consolidation and Alienation -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development
