David Moon is anniversary professor in history at the University of York. He is a specialist in the rural life of the Russian Empire from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.[1] Moon also has an interest in environmental history and has received an International Network Grant for £123,000 from the Leverhulme Trust for research in that area.[2]
Moon earned his BA at the University of Newcastle and PhD at the University of Birmingham. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1]
Moon's The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914 (2013) was selected as one of the Financial Times' history books of the year for 2013.[1]
Selected publications edit
- Russian Peasants and Tsarist Legislation on the Eve of Reform: Interaction between Peasants and Officialdom 1825-1855. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992.
- The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930: The World the Peasants Made. London and New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.
- The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia 1762-1907. Harlow and London: Longman, 2001.
- The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
References edit
- ^ a b c David Moon. University of York. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ Leverhulme funds place-based environmental history project led by David Moon in Russia. Environmental Histories. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
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