This mini pocket Ljubljana is perfect for travellers looking for essential information in a compact format. Written by Rough Guides' experts, it provides key details on must-see places, top attractions, and curated recommendations to help you make the most of your trip. With suggested itineraries, dining tips, and practical advice, it's your go-to ......
Near and Desired Things reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies, these institutions concentrated ......
Near and Desired Things reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies, these institutions concentrated ......
Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to Bulgaria, written by Bulgaria experts, goes beyond the basics. It blends must-see sights with hidden gems and offers unmatched practical guidance for seamless planning and on-the-go exploration. Packed with in-depth advice often missing from other guides, it helps you navigate with ease. From ......
Since the collapse of socialism, Bulgaria's population has been on the move-out of rural regions and into cities, or out of the country altogether. Yet today there is a countermovement of young, urban Bulgarians, born after 1989, seeking to repopulate rural villages and reclaim traditional Bulgarian folklife. Though many of these young Bulgarians ......
Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812-1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution who has been an inspiration to dissidents fighting authoritarianism and imperialism ever since. Kathleen Parthe has ......
Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812-1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution who has been an inspiration to dissidents fighting authoritarianism and imperialism ever since. Kathleen Parthe has ......
Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as their bourgeois elites envisioned new, urban societies on the European borderlands. This book traces ......