TY - BOOK ID - 12277868 TI - Human capital : the settlement of foreigners in Russia, 1762-1804 PY - 1979 SN - 0521222052 0521086108 0511561032 0511865716 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Russia KW - Emigration and immigration KW - -History. KW - Foreign workers KW - Immigrants KW - Land settlement KW - History. KW - History KW - Resettlement KW - Settlement of land KW - Colonies KW - Land use, Rural KW - Human settlements KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Alien labor KW - Foreign labor KW - Guest workers KW - Guestworkers KW - Immigrant labor KW - Immigrant workers KW - Migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Employees KW - Employment KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - Noncitizen labor KW - Noncitizens KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12277868 AB - This book examines in detail the Russian government's policy of settling foreigners in European Russia during the last third of the eighteenth century. The recruitment of foreign settlers was practised by many European states during this period, primarily as part of general population policies which sought the highest possible levels of population. In Russia it was also part of the process of settling and developing frontier regions. Dr Bartlett shows the European and Russian background, describes the genesis of the Empress Catherine II's Manifestos of 1762 and 1763 (which set the policy in motion) and follows the development and implementation of policy. The two most notable ethnic groups among Imperial Russia's foreign settlers were Bulgarians and Germans, but many other nationalities were also involved. A separate chapter deals with urban settlement - foreign entrepreneurs and artisans - including the Armenian community of Astrakhan; and connections are explored with other areas of policy, notably with Catherine's interest in the Baltic provinces, her concern with the Jewish question, and with serfdom; and the question of technical improvement in agriculture during the early years of her reign. ER -