{"product_id":"a-biography-of-no-place-9780674019492","title":"A Biography of No Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Biography of No Place\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most original and imaginative works of history to emerge in the western literature on the former Soviet Union in the last ten years. Historiographically fearless, Kate Brown writes with elegance and force, turning this history of a lost, but culturally rich borderland into a compelling narrative that serves as a microcosm for understanding nation and state in the Twentieth Century. With compassion and respect for the diverse people who inhabited this margin of territory between Russia and Poland, Kate Brown restores the voices, memories, and humanity of a people lost. -- Lynne Viola, Professor of History, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Butler and Kate Brown have something in common.  Both have written about Erewhon with imagination and flair.  I was captivated by the courage and enterprise behind this book.  Is there a way to write a history of events that do not make rational sense? Kate Brown asks.  She proceeds to give us a stunning answer. -- Modris Eksteins, author of \u003ci\u003eRites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Brown tells the story of how succeeding regimes transformed a onetime multiethnic borderland into a far more ethnically homogeneous region through their often murderous imperialist and nationalist projects. She writes evocatively of the inhabitants' frequently challenged identities and livelihoods and gives voice to their aspirations and laments, including Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, and Russians.  \u003ci\u003eA Biography of No Place\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative meditation on the meanings of periphery and center in the writing of history. -- Mark von Hagen, Professor of History, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlossary    Introduction   1. Inventory   2. Ghosts in the Bathhouse   3. Moving Pictures   4. The Power to Name   5. A Diary of Deportation   6. The Great Purges and the Rights of Man   7. Deportee into Colonizer   8. Racial Hierarchies   Epilogue: Shifting Borders, Shifting Identities    Notes   Archival Sources   Acknowledgments   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403525955927,"sku":"9780674019492","price":24.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-biography-of-no-place-9780674019492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}