Customer Review: I really wonder about the expertise of the author and the rave reviews of this volume. first of all it is extremely derivativ of Groueff's work. but it leaves one important episode and glosses over another. Firstly Bulgaria's Jewish population was the victim of one of the worst pogroms in Eastern... more info
Customer Review: _Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies - And Why They Disappeared_, published in 2007 in the Culture of Enterprise Series by ISI Books, by leading family scholar Allan C. Carlson is a fascinating examination of some of... more info
Customer Review: Ha-ha, this guy is a piece of work, isn't he? I am a Bulgarian, and have lived in Bulgaria during Communism, as opposed to this so-called historian. While it is true that Communism was not a picnic, the "historians", especially in the West greatly exagerate the facts.
Yes, the camps existed,... more info
Customer Review: But not in this work. The title of this review is a quotation of the French Admiral de Vienne who uttered it at the sight of the over hastily advancing French and Burgundian knights."When truth and reason cannot be heard,than must arrogance rule".Thus giving a perfect one-sentence description of the... more info
Customer Review: Rice makes reading an ethnography a pleasure. All ethnomusicologists seeking to undertake their own writing project ought to read this book first. His accounts about studying with Kostadin make you feel like you were there learning the gaida, too. Rice's model makes a good case for learning an... more info
Customer Review: Timothy Rice's MUSIC IN BULGARIA, part of Oxford University Press' "Global Music" series, is a concise introduction to the world of Bulgarian musical life from peasant traditions of centuries past to the pop-folk ("chalga") combination enjoyed by modern urban listeners. Unlike Rice's earlier work on... more info
Customer Review: You have to really want to learn about early Bulgarian history to enjoy this book. It's very data oriented & can be a little boring, as it is written in a typical academic style (and I AM an academic, so I know whereof I speak). However, I am traveling to Bulgaria this summer & after... more info
Customer Review: of the comparative historical grammar of the Slavic languages. The complicated phonological changes are presented in taut and concise fashion. The morphology, as often happens, is more resistant to a satisfactory, integrated presentation. Highly recommended.
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