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Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place? This book narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. It also examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.

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"Brown is among our most visionary historians: a scholar, writer, and traveler who forces us to think of awfulness as a kind of opportunity and emptiness as another kind of thriving. Dispatches from Dystopia should be read by anyone interested in the fate of modernity in places that were once thought to be at its forefront. But it is also a set of essays on the art and science of sense-making: when to go to the archives and when to ignore them, how to hear and smell a place, and why our stories about someone else's past end up being some version of our own." (Charles King, author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams)

Dispatches from Dystopia

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/2015
      ISBN13: 9780226242798, 978-0226242798
      ISBN10: 022624279X
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      Book Synopsis
      Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place? This book narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. It also examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.

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      "Brown is among our most visionary historians: a scholar, writer, and traveler who forces us to think of awfulness as a kind of opportunity and emptiness as another kind of thriving. Dispatches from Dystopia should be read by anyone interested in the fate of modernity in places that were once thought to be at its forefront. But it is also a set of essays on the art and science of sense-making: when to go to the archives and when to ignore them, how to hear and smell a place, and why our stories about someone else's past end up being some version of our own." (Charles King, author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams)

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