The life cycle of Russian things : from fish guts to Fabergé, 1600-present /
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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Publisher Address: | London, UK : |
Publication Dates: | 2022. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Carrier Form: | x, 248 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781350186026 9781350186064 |
Index Number: | DK32 |
CLC: | K512.5 |
Call Number: | K512.5/L722 |
Contents: | Immateriality and intermateriality: the vanishing centrality of apothecary ware in Russian medicine / Clare Griffin -- Lime and limestone in eighteenth-century Russia / Alison K. Smith -- Underground materials: the (un)making of samizdat texts / Ann Komaromi -- Making fish guts into isinglass and glue / Matthew P. Romaniello -- The thickness of a plaid: textiles on the Chikhachev estate in 1830s Vladimir Province / Katherine Pickering Antonova -- Sugar as a "basic necessity": state efforts to supply the Russian Empire's population in the early twentieth century / Charles R. Steinwedel -- Making samovars Russian / Audra Yoder -- 'Constant companions': Fabergé tobacco cases and sensory prompts to addiction / Tricia Starks -- Socialism in one tank: the T-34 as a microcosm / Brandon Schechter -- Binding Siberia: Semen Remezov's Khorograficheskaia kniga in time and through time / Erika Monahan -- 'Rather poor and threadbare': Borogaz, scratching woman, and the intimacy of material / Marisa Karyl Franz -- 'Kunstschutz' in the war of annihilation or the power of images against ideology / Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig. |