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The Carpathians, the Hutsuls, and Ukraine

An Environmental History
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This book examines the relationship between Ukraine's Galician Hutsuls and the Carpathian landscape between 1848 and 1939. The author analyzes the intersections of ecology and culture in the history of the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on the region's economy and biodiversity.
Anthony J. Amato is professor in the Social Science Department at Southwest Minnesota State University.
Chapter One: The Map and the Territory Chapter Two: Villages, Frontiers, and Pasts Chapter Three: Thinking Unlike a Mountain: Environment, Pasts, and Presents Chapter Four: Girdling Dracula's Trees and Sprucing up the Carpathians Chapter Five: Unintended Alliances Chapter Six: Missing the Forest for the Trees: Environment and the Servitudes Dispute Chapter Seven: Environment and Economy Chapter Eight: Rivers: Black, White, Brown, and Tan Chapter Nine: Household, Property, and Economy Chapter Ten: Thick Description of Thin Soils
Deeply considered and engagingly written, Anthony J. Amato's environmental history of the Hutsul region in the northeastern Carpathians offers new vistas on the development of a remote, but by no means isolated, mountain area. Amato's highly learned study offers a rich, multi-layered portrait of how the herders and swidden cultivators residing here made their livings during the nine decades after 1848 in a challenging natural environment and amidst changing biologic, economic, social, and political conditions. Anyone interested in the relationship of mountain communities to their environment will learn much from this book. -- Gary B. Cohen, University of Minnesota
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