{"product_id":"sugarland-the-transformation-of-the-countryside-in-communist-albania-9789633866160","title":"Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this historical monograph on non-urban communist Albania, Artan Hoxha discusses the ambitious development project that turned a swampland into a site of sugar production after 1945. The author seeks to free the history of Albanian communism from the stereotypes that still circulate about it with stigmas of an aberration, paranoia, extreme nationalism, and xenophobia. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis micro-history of the agricultural and industrial transformation of a zone in southeastern Albania, explores a wide range of issues including modernization, development, and social, cultural, and economic policies. In addition to analyzing the collectivization of agriculture, Hoxha shows how communism affected the lives of ordinary rural people. As elsewhere in the Communist Bloc, the Albanian regime borrowed developmental projects from the past and implemented them using social mobilization and a command economy. The abundant archival resources along with interviews in the field attest to the authorities’ efforts to increase consumption and to radically transform people’s tastes. But the book argues that despite the repressive environment, people involved in the sugar project were not simply passive receivers of models from the nation's capital. The author also describes that—in defiance of Cold War bipolarity—technological requirements and social policy considerations required a degree of engagement with the broader world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a terrific book, a product of extensive research in Albanian archives and sources combined with a thoughtful engagement with the central problems of the Cold War and the contemporary era.\" https:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showpdf.php -- Austin Jersild * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"Albania has long been a kind of terra incognita for the East European field, given the scarcity of anglophone work until quite recently. Sugarland brings Albania back into the various trajectories and developments of regional and global history. This book is groundbreaking, original, and a joy to read. It makes a major contribution to Albanian, Balkan, East European (and European), and commodity history and is a must read in the field.\" https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/jcws\/article-abstract\/25\/4\/267\/118960\/Sugarland-The-Transformation-of-the-Countryside-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext -- Mary Neuburger * Journal of Cold War Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. The Making of the Sugar Scheme: Transitioning from Empire to Nation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Plain of Maliq in Ottoman Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceiving the Reclamation of the Maliq Swamp\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Maliq Scheme and the Quest for Nation-Building and Self-Sufficiency\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlbania’s American Frontier\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Maliq Scheme and Fascism’s Grand Colonial Project in Albania\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. The Making of Maliq’s Landscape: Modern and Stalinist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Maliq’s Landscape between “Good” and “Bad” Governments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Uncompleted Reclamation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           “For the Factory and Your Country”: Maliq and the Nation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Inscribing the Tabula Rasa: Gridding the Stalinist Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. Sugar and the Communist Construction of Spatial Inequalities in Maliq\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Sugar Production and the Communist Project of Social Transformation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Building and Peopling Where Once Only the Fishermen Could Go\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Building Socialism, Spatializing Inequalities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Love for the Plain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. Maliq and the World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           A Tapestry of Transnational Exchanges\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Maliq and Its East-West Economy of Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Maliq, Sugar Consumption, and Cross-Border Exchanges\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. Communism and After: From Sugar to Ruins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Ruins and the Angel of History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Building a Regional Integrated Economic Web\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           The Fall of Communism and the Unraveling of the Web\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e           Maliq Today: Ruins, Marginalization, and Memory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047192789335,"sku":"9789633866160","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789633866160.jpg?v=1750970620","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sugarland-the-transformation-of-the-countryside-in-communist-albania-9789633866160","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}