*David Moon | /The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s /| Cambridge University Press | 2020 | 352 Pages*
Readers looking for surprising insights into the environmental history of the American Midwest will not be disappointed by David Moon’s /The American Steppes./Building on his previous work on the history of agriculture in Russia between 1700 to 1914 <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-plough-that-broke-the-steppes-9780199556434?cc=fr&lang=en&;>, David Moon convincingly demonstrates that, despite being two seemingly distinct parts of the world, the North American Great Plains and the Eurasian steppes have much in common. Focusing on both human and environmental actors, Moon seeks to better understand how the thousands of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants who relocated to the Great Plains and Canadian prairies between 1870 and 1917 crucially shaped what is today called “America’s wheatbelt.”
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