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Beuerle, Benjamin et al. (Eds.): Environments, Resources, and Infrastructures Between Russia and the Asia-Pacific, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025 (Russia and the Asia-Pacific, Volume 2). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1589

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12/11/2025

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Benjamin Beuerle (Ed.), Sandra Dahlke (Ed.), Anna Mazanik (Ed.), Andreas Renner (Ed.)

Environments, Resources, and Infrastructures Between Russia and the Asia-Pacific

Russia and the Asia-Pacific

The volume brings together interdisciplinary studies of the environments, resource policies, and infrastructures in the North Pacific, spanning the eighteenth century to the present. From early colonial encounters to post-Soviet transnational cooperation, from hunting and whaling to oil and gas extraction, from imperial conservation to climate change, this collection offers new perspectives to the histories of a region increasingly important to global ecological and strategic debates.

Benjamin Beuerle is a researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), working in the field of environmental, climate and energy histories and policies with a focus on the Soviet Union, Russia, and the post-Soviet space.

Sandra Dahlke is a historian of the late Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and the Director of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe. Together with Andreas Renner she has initiated the network project “Russia’s North Pacific”.

Anna Mazanik is a medical and environmental historian of Eastern Europe and Eurasia and a research fellow at the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe.

Andreas Renner is a historian of Eastern Europe and holds the Chair of Russia-Asia Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Front matter
i-iv
Table of Contents
v-vi
Benjamin Beuerle, Anna Mazanik, Andreas Renner
1 Introduction
1-16
Colonial Encounters (1700–1960s)
17
Spencer Abbe
2 “The Tsunami Has No Borders”: Considering the Significance of Disaster in North Pacific History
19-45
Luise Fast
3 Trust, Anxiety, and Power in the Yukon Backcountry: Reading Zagoskin’s Expedition Journal, 1842–1844
47-72
Mark Sokolsky
4 Colonisation and Russia’s “Green” Civilising Mission in the Far East
73-104
Ryan Tucker Jones
5 Vladimir Arsen’ev, the Russian Far East, and Origins of Soviet Whaling in the North Pacific Ocean
105-123
Competition and Cooperation (1960s–2020s)
125
Ivan Zuenko, Ilya Chubarov
6 “A Window on China”: A History of Creating Cross-Border Economic Zones on the Sino-Russian Border
127-146
Nikolai Fedorov
7 Russia and the Rivalry for Oil and Gas in the South China Sea
147-164
Martin Kossa
8 Sino-Russian Arctic Resource and Infrastructure Engagement
165-189
Sources and Discussion
191
Hongjin Liu, Anna Mazanik
9 UNDESA’s Research Project: Transport and Utilisation of Natural Gas in Northeast Asia
193-209

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