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“philip gleissner”

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  • Subscribing to Sovietdom

    The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal

    by Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner ...
    In the Soviet Union, literary journals were ubiquitous. Citizens read these so-called thick journals on crowded buses and debated the most recent issue with colleagues at work or friends at the kitchen table. Writers competed for spots in the most prestigious periodicals and formed communities around editorial offices that operated in a complex relationship with censorship and Party authorities. ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Red Migrations

    Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917

    Edited by Philip Gleissner, Bradley A. Gorski ...
    Together with a new political, social, and cultural order, the Bolshevik Revolution also brought about a spatial revolution. Changed patterns, motivations, and impacts of migration collided with new cultural forms and aesthetic mandates. Red Migrations highlights the various multidirectional and multilateral transnational movements of leftist thinkers, artists, and writers.The book draws on avant ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Resilient Kitchens

    American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes

    by Philip Gleissner, Harry Eli Kashdan, Reem Kassis, Stephanie Jolly, Krishnendu Ray, Tien Nguyen, Bonnie Frumkin Morales, Mayukh Sen, Geetika Agrawal0, Fernay McPherson1, Antonio Tahhan2, Sangeeta Lakhani3, Keenan Dava4, Tim Flores5, Angelo Dolojan6, Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri7 ...
    Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Book in Food Issues and AdvocacyImmigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

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  • Tastes Like War

    A Memoir

    by Grace M. Cho ...
    Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in LiteratureA TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness).Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine... ... Read more

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  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... Read more

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  • Kaleidoscopic Odessa

    History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Tanya Richardson ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    The recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run through the former Soviet republic. Examining Odessa, the Black Sea port that was once the Russian Empire's southern window onto Europe, Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides an ethnographic portrait of these overlapping divisions in a city where many residents ... Read more

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  • Female Nomad and Friends

    Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World

    by Rita Golden Gelman ...
    In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has met thousands of readers, stayed in their homes, and sat around kitchen tables sharing stories ... Read more

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  • Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference

    The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire

    by Marina B. Mogilner ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to "race" as an operational concept in the late imperial politics of the Russian Empire.Building on the latest scholarship on racial thinking and Jewish identities, Marina Mogilner shows how Jewish anthropologists, ethnographers, writers, lawyers, and political ... Read more

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  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Museums of Communism

    New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Stephen M. Norris ...
    How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range ... Read more

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  • The Nom Wah Cookbook

    Recipes and Stories from 100 Years at New York City's Iconic Dim Sum Restaurant

    by Wilson Tang, Joshua David Stein ...
    A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM:Bon Appetit * The New York Times Book Review * Epicurious * Plate * Saveur * Grub Street * Wired * The Spruce Eats * Conde Nast Traveler * Food & Wine * HeatedFor the last 100 years, Nom Wah Tea Parlor has been slinging some of the world’s greatest dim sum from New York’s Chinatown. Now owner Wilson Tang tells the story of how the restaurant came to be—and how to prepare ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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