David Moon is anniversary professor in history at the

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. He is a specialist in the rural life of the

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from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.David Moon.
University of York. Retrieved 17 June 2015. Moon also has an interest in environmental history and has received an International Network Grant for £123,000 from the

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for research in that area.Leverhulme funds place-based environmental history project led by David Moon in Russia.
Environmental Histories. Retrieved 17 June 2015. Moon earned his BA at the University of Newcastle and PhD at the

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. He is a fellow of the

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. 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.

Selected publications

*''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:

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, 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:

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, 2013.

References

External links

*http://blog.oup.com/2013/04/environmental-history-russia-steppes/ Living people Alumni of Newcastle University Alumni of the University of Birmingham Environmental historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of Russia Historians of the University of York Year of birth missing (living people) {{Russia-studies-bio-stub