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Hardcover:
9780226257419 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 10, 2016, cover price $48.00
Paperback:
9780226257556 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 10, 2016, cover price $16.00
Product Description: In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance...read more
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9780822358237 | Duke Univ Pr, February 20, 2015, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.
Paperback:
9780822358350 | Duke Univ Pr, February 20, 2015, cover price $23.95
Hardcover:
9781442208582 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 1, 2011, cover price $36.00
9780312802516, titled "Three Edwards War" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1980, cover price $27.50 | also contains Three Edwards War | About this edition: Examines the reigns of Edward I, II, and III, including the development of Parliament, the changing economy, the characteristics of the nobility, social conditions, and the effects of war
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9781442208599 | Updated edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 21, 2014), cover price $22.00
Product Description: Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past...read more
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9780822350897 | Duke Univ Pr, September 14, 2011, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism.
Paperback:
9780822351023 | Duke Univ Pr, September 14, 2011, cover price $22.95
Hardcover:
9780691139548 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 27, 2009, cover price $72.50
Paperback:
9780691139555 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 27, 2009, cover price $31.95
This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgariaâs popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europeâs transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgariaâs beautiful beaches and mountains; tourism is today one of the few successfulâand expandingâsectors of the countryâs economy. Even at the highest levels of management, employment in the tourism industry has long been dominated by women. Kristen Ghodsee explains why this is and how women working in the industry have successfully negotiated their way through Bulgariaâs capitalist transformation while the fortunes of most of the population have plummeted. She highlights how, prior to 1989, the communist planners sought to create full employment for all at the same time that they steered women into the service sector. The women given jobs in tourism obtained higher educations, foreign language skills, and experiences working with Westerners, all of which positioned them to take advantage of the institutional changes eventually brought about by privatization.Interspersed throughout The Red Riviera are vivid examinations of the lives of Bulgarian women, including a waitress, a tour operator, a chef, a maid, a receptionist, and a travel agent. Through these womenâs stories, Ghodsee describes their employment prior to 1989 and after. She considers the postsocialist forces that have shaped the tourist industry over the past fifteen years: the emergence of a new democratic state, the small but increasing interest of foreign investors and transnational corporations, and the proliferation of ngos. Ghodsee suggests that many of the ngos, by insisting that Bulgarian women are necessarily disenfranchised, ignore their significant professional successes.
Hardcover:
9780822336501 | Duke Univ Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgariaâs popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europeâs transition from socialism to a market economy.
Paperback:
9780822336624 | Duke Univ Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $22.95
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