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Albania: Portrait of a Country in Transition
Clarissa de Waal
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Description for Albania: Portrait of a Country in Transition
Paperback. Explains Albania's 'transition' from Communism via the experiences of a diverse range of families, highland villagers, urban elite and shanty dwellers - whose lives she has followed since 1992. In this title, the author shows us members of the ex-communist elite in Tirana embracing rentier capitalism. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4pp bw plates. BIC Classification: 1DVWA; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 428.
Catapulted from totalitarianism to free market capitalism in 1991, Albania emerged from half a century of isolation to find itself an anomaly in Europe: a third world country economically, but first world in terms of education, literature and the arts. How has Albania transformed since then? Clarissa de Waal here explains Albania's 'transition' from Communism via the experiences of a diverse range of families, highland villagers, urban elite and shanty dwellers - whose lives she has followed since 1992. De Waal shows that whilst the archaic world of customary law continues to pervade highland life, and squatters on state farmland ... Read more
Catapulted from totalitarianism to free market capitalism in 1991, Albania emerged from half a century of isolation to find itself an anomaly in Europe: a third world country economically, but first world in terms of education, literature and the arts. How has Albania transformed since then? Clarissa de Waal here explains Albania's 'transition' from Communism via the experiences of a diverse range of families, highland villagers, urban elite and shanty dwellers - whose lives she has followed since 1992. De Waal shows that whilst the archaic world of customary law continues to pervade highland life, and squatters on state farmland ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780764849
SKU
V9781780764849
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About Clarissa de Waal
Clarissa de Waa l taught Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for 20 years. She is a Fellow of Newnham College.
Reviews for Albania: Portrait of a Country in Transition
"Clarissa de Waal's brilliant study of the first dozen years of post-Communist Albania, published in 2003, showed an unrivalled grasp of both life at the grass roots and the 'agitated stagnancy' of the country as a whole. This updated volume, which brings the story up to 2012, underlines Dr de Waal's remarkable foresight a decade ago and provides a lucid ... Read more