Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john r staples”
Skip side bar filters

  • Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine

    by John R. Staples ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789 ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    The Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Vol. 3: 1843–1848

    Edited by Harvey Dyck, Ingrid Epp, John R. Staples ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochnaia.The third and final volume of Cornies’s papers, this ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    15+ Masterpieces You have to read before You die

    Of Mice and Men, The Old Man and The Sea, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Chronicles of Narnia (7 Books), 1984, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, No Longer Human, Brave New World

    by John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Clive Staples Lewis, George Orwell, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Osamu Dazai, Aldous Huxley ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen, Peter Coates, Angela S. Clark, Joe Phoenix, Carl Hughes, Simon Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    68 hours 56 min

    This carefully compiled collection includes: John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Old Man and the Sea Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles Of Narnia (7 Books) George Orwell 1984 Animal Farm Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Osamu Dazai No Longer Human Aldous Huxley Brave New World ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836–1842

    by Ingrid I. Epp ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. The three volumes of Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe document the Tsarist Mennonite ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835

    by Ingrid I. Epp ...
    Series Book 1 - Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as “model colonists” to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Oceans of Grain

    How American Wheat Remade the World

    by Scott Reynolds Nelson ...
    An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times).To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Bad and Downright Ugly of the German-Russian Volga Colonies

    by D. Philipp Kaiser ...
    Third book in my series on German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. The goal of this book is to identify the hardships that my German-Russian ancestors endured and overcame in the Volga Colonies. The First Chapter covers their emigration to the Volga Colonies. The Second Chapter covers the Shock and Disappointment, Death Rate, Wild Weather, Sickness, and Food Shortages that they endured. Chapter 3 ... Read more

    $2.10 CAD

  • Wood

    A History

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that the handling of wood is a basic element in the history of the human body. The fear of a future wood famine became a panic in the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Taming the Wild Field

    Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

    by Willard Sunderland ...
    Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Last Waltz on the Danube

    The Ethnic German Genocide in History and Memory 1944-1948

    by Ali Botein-Furrevig, Ph.D. ...
    The forgotten ethnic cleansing--the grand scale genocide--of some two million innocent ethnic German citizens living for over 400 years along the Danube River has been long shrouded in silence. Dr. Ali Botein first discusses the horrific story of Tito's 1944-1948 barbarous revenge against the Danube Swabians, most of whom had never even been to Germany. In the 18th century following the return of ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mennonite in Russia

    The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880

    by Harvey L. Dyck ...
    In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers a remarkably vivid picture of Mennonite community life in Imperial Russia during a period of troubled change. Epp’s writings reveal a skilled ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Hungary and its place In European History

    Enriched edition.

    by Pálengó Teleki, Lucas Finch ...
    In "The Evolution of Hungary and its Place in European History," Pálengó Teleki meticulously chronicles the rich tapestry of Hungary's historical development, situating it within the broader European context. Utilizing a blend of narrative prose and analytical historiography, Teleki deftly navigates through pivotal events, cultural shifts, and socio-political transformations, establishing Hungary ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus