History of Beekeeping and the Honeybee in Contested Eastern European Landscapes

History of Beekeeping and the Honeybee in Contested Eastern European Landscapes

Empires of the Bee

Clay, Catherine B.

Lexington Books

11/2024

380

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9781666930627

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: Land, People, and the Honeybee in Prehistory

Part I: Premodern Bee-Centered Landscapes

Chapter 1: Political Economies of Wax and Honey in the Rise of Rus and Muscovy from the 8th to the 15th Centuries

Chapter 2: The Honeybee and Religiosity: The Hum of Human-Bee Interaction in Prehistory, Kievan Rus, and Muscovy

Part II: Transitions: Early Modern Muscovy and Imperial Russia

Chapter 3: Beekeeping and Early Modern Empire, 1550-1800

Chapter 4: An Imperial Russian Bee Culture, 1550-1820

Part III: Modern Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia

Chapter 5: Beekeeping and Bee Culture in the Late Empire to the Great War

Chapter 6: The Sovietization of Beekeeping: "The Most Powerful in the World"

Chapter 7: Aftermath: Bee Culture in Contemporary Public History

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author
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Animal human relations;History of beekeeping;Honeybees;Imperial Russian ecology;Post-Soviet Russian;Russian bee culture;Russian cultural history;Russian environmental history