The milliped genus Underwoodia (Chordeumatida: Caseyidae)

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland M. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coast Range ◽  
Kurile Islands ◽  
Northern Utah ◽  
The Russian Far East

The milliped genus Underwoodia comprises three species that are characterized primarily by the configurations of branches a and c of the anterior gonopod colpocoxites and the degree to which the latter is segregated from process b. Underwoodia iuloides ranges across Canada from Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, extending southward in the United States to New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and northeastern New Mexico. Underwoodia tida Chamberlin, whose questionable referral to this genus is confirmed, ranges from the Rocky Mountains of Alberta to the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains of northern Utah, and probably extends westward to the Coast Range of British Columbia and the Alaska panhandle. Underwoodia hespera Chamberlin is placed in synonymy under this species. Underwoodia kurtschevae Golovatch occurs in east Asia, being known from Sakhalin Island, the Kurile Islands, and mainland sites in the Russian Far East. The genus is thus Holarctic and demonstrates a clear trans-Beringian distribution pattern. Parthenogenesis appears to be an autapotypy, as females greatly outnumber males in all three races.

Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, xv, 329 pp. + maps.

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-236
Author(s):  
Willard Sunderland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Amur River ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
Geographical Expansion ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
The Russian Far East

For the Russians, Siberia has always been “Other” and, as a result, it has often been imagined as something other than what it is. As Mark Bassin argues in this richly detailed book, this habit of the Russian imaginaire was on full display during the mid-1800s when hopeful Russian observers and statesmen envisioned the Russian Empire's latest territorial acquisition—the Amur river in far eastern Siberia—as a new Mississippi and the region around it as a potential second America. Ultimately, of course, these geographical analogies proved well off the mark. The region of the Amur never went on to experience the prosperity of the United States and the Amur river never even remotely rivaled the importance of the Mississippi as an artery of trade and settlement. And what is so interesting about all this is that the Russians themselves began to have their doubts about the Amur within just a few years of annexing it. Bassin's work, in fact, concentrates on explaining this strange shift. It is a study of why the Russian vision of the Amur that began so hot ended up turning so cold so quickly and what the vision itself seems to reveal about the content of Russian national identity.

U.S.-Russian Relations and the North Korean Crisis: A Role for the Russian Far East?

Asian Survey ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 722-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Clay Moltz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Reserves ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Far East

Because of its energy reserves and long history of economic links with North Korea, the Russian Far East could provide useful incentives needed to help convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program. For this reason, the United States should begin crafting a regionally based strategy that includes Russia.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Reservoir Correction Ages in the Peter the Great Gulf, Sea of Japan, and Eastern Coast of the Kunashir, Southern Kuriles (Northwestern Pacific)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (2A) ◽  
pp. 477-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav V Kuzmin ◽  
G S Burr ◽  
A J Timothy Jull
Keyword(s):  
Sea Of Japan ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Northwestern Pacific ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
Kurile Islands ◽  
Age Correction ◽  
Reservoir Age ◽  
The Russian Far East

The radiocarbon reservoir age correction values (R) for the Russian Far East are estimated as 370 ± 26 yr for the northwestern Sea of Japan, and 711 ± 46 yr for the southern Kurile Islands.

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