Russian History through the Senses (eBook, ePUB)

From 1700 to the Present
Redaktion: Romaniello, Matthew P.; Starks, Tricia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together an impressive cast of well-respected scholars in the field of modern Russian studies, Russian History through the Senses investigates life in Russia from 1700 to the present day via the senses. It examines past experiences of taste, touch, smell, sight and sound to capture a vivid impression of what it was to have lived in the Russian world, so uniquely placed as it is between East and West, during the last three hundred years.

The book discusses the significance of sensory history in relation to modern Russia and covers a range of exciting case studies, rich with primary source material, that provide a stimulating way of understanding modern Russia at a visceral level.

Russian History through the Senses is a novel text that is of great value to scholars and students interested in modern Russian studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474263153
• Artikelnr.: 45962095

Autorenporträt

Matthew P. Romaniello is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. He is the author of The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552-1671 (2012), and the co-editor of three volumes, including Tobacco in Russian History and Culture from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2009) with Tricia Starks. Tricia Starks is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, USA. She is the author of The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene and the Revolutionary State (2008) and is completing a monograph on smoking in modern Russia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: The Sensory in Russian and Soviet History - Alexander M. Martin
University of Notre Dame
USA Part I - Imperial Russia 2. Humoral Bodies in Cold Climates - Matthew P. Romaniello
University of Hawaii
USA 3. Fermentation
Taste and Identity - Alison K. Smith
University of Toronto
Canada 4. Market Pleasures and Prostitution in St. Petersburg - Abby Schrader
Franklin and Marshall College
USA Part II - Revolutionary Russia 5. The Taste
Smell
and Semiotics of Cigarettes - Tricia Starks
University of Arkansas
USA 6. The Sounds
Odors
and Textures of Russian Wartime Nursing - Laurie Stoff
Arizona State University
USA 7. The Taste of Kumyshka and the Debate over Udmurt Culture - Aaron Retish
Wayne State University
USA Part III - Soviet Russia 8. Engineering Tastes: Food and the Senses - Anton Masterovoy
City College of New York
USA 9. Deafness and the Politics of Hearing - Claire Shaw
University of Bristol
UK 10. Sensing Danger: The Red Army during the Second World War - Steven G. Jug
Baylor University
USA Part IV - Reconstructing Russia 11. The Sensory Experience of Martyrdom and Soviet Collective Memory - Adrienne Harris
Baylor University
USA 12. Stalinism's Sights and Smells in the Films of Aleksei German
Sr. - Tim Harte
Bryn Mawr College
USA Selected bibliography Index