Burning Swamps : Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy

Name: Burning Swamps
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009603089
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ISBN: 9781009603089

by Katja Bruisch

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Format Hardback

Book Series Studies in Environment and History

ISBN-10 1009603086

ISBN-13 9781009603089

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 25th, 2025

Print length 292 Pages

Weight 590 grams

Dimensions 16.10 x 23.70 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Historical geography Environmental economics Environmental economics History Historical geography Energy resources

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This 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.

This groundbreaking environmental history recounts the story of Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Unpacking the forgotten history of how peat fuelled manufacturing industries and power plants in late Imperial and Soviet Russia, Katja Bruisch provides a corrective to more familiar historical narratives dominated by coal, oil, and gas. Attentive to the intertwined histories of matter and labor during a century of industrial peat extraction, she offers a fresh perspective on the modern Russian economy that moves beyond the socialism/capitalism binary. By identifying peat extraction in modern Russia as a crucial chapter in the degradation of the world's peatlands, Bruisch makes a compelling case for paying attention to seemingly marginal places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.

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