Mary C Neuburger
Biographic Data
| ID | 2277433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary C Neuburger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary C |
| FAMILY NAME | Neuburger |
| SIGNATURE | NEUBURGER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0221-3507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition
Mediums, Media, and Mediated 'Post'-Truth: Baba Vanga in the Russian Imagination
It is impossible to understand the phenomenon of disinformation without unraveling the more perplexing notion of 'truth.' This article explores how a Bulgarian psychic or prophet named Baba Vanga (1911-1996) became one of the most noteworthy mediums of 'truth' in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian imagination. With Bulgarian-Russian transnational ties as context, we trace how belief in Baba Vanga's abilities and prophecies was propagated…
Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania by Artan Hoxha
Artan Hoxha's Sugarland is a veritable breath of fresh air in the field of East European—and particularly, Albanian—studies. The literature in English on Albanian history is sparse, a hangover from the long decades of Communist rule that prevented access to archives, but also a result of the “little country problem” that plagues the East European field. Fortunately, the paucity of scholarly work on Albania published in English has been at least p…
Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria
Drinking to the Future: Wine in Communist Bulgaria
This article explores wine production, consumption and trade in the context of late socialist Bulgaria and the wider Eastern Bloc. In particular, it connects wine to the process of building legitimacy in Bulgaria, as part of post-Stalinist culture of consumer abundance and even connoisseurship that was steeped in nationalist narratives and meanings, as well as utopian visions of the future. To complicate such narratives, it also delves into the c…
The Bulgarian Factor in Russia’s Revolutionary Era, 1917–23
In this article, I delve into the multifaceted roles and remarkable significance of the Bulgarian left in the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the tumultuous period that followed. In particular, I look at the ‘special relationship’ of the Bulgarian and Russian left and the concrete ways in which people, materials, and ideas were exchanged via various channels, in particular across the Black Sea. The loyalties, ties, and contributions of the Bulgar…
The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution: Introduction
Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
This title reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods.
Kebabche , Caviar or Hot Dogs? Consuming the Cold War at the Plovdiv Fair 1947–72
For the duration of the Cold War, hundreds of thousands of people descended on Plovdiv, Bulgaria for at least two weeks out of every year as spectators and consumers. During these weeks the Plovdiv International Fair grounds were like a portal through which the Iron Curtain was permeated and East-West interaction and exchange took place. The fair offered an array of images and goods that broadcast messages of power and plenty from a variety of st…
Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950
366 Book Reviews / Canadian – American Slavic Studies 44 (2010) 343–386 Melissa Feinberg. Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. x, 275 pp. $35.00. In the context of interwar Central and East European political developments, Czechoslovakia is always seen as exceptional, held up as a bastion of democracy in a sea of authoritarian regimes. Ce…
Introduction: Exhibiting Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Fair Encounters: Bulgaria and the "West" at International Exhibitions from Plovdiv to St. Louis
By the late nineteenth century, world's fairs had captured the imagination of Bulgarian political and intellectual elites. Bulgarians were not only enthusiastic pilgrims to the major world's fairs in the west, but by 1892 they had staged their own international trade exhibition in Plovdiv. Here, as elsewhere, the fair phenomenon was an arena for broadcasting messages of national prowess and progress, as well as a context for the performance and c…
Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Book Review| April 01 2009 Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Nancy Parezo and Don Fowler. Mary Neuburger Mary Neuburger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (3): 101–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
To Chicago and Back: Aleko Konstantinov, Rose Oil, and the Smell of Modernity
In 1893 Aleko Konstantinov undertook a momentous journey to the Chicago World's Fair. Mary Neuburger explores the broader implications of this journey and its consequences for the Bulgarian encounter with the west and modernity, drawing special attention to the issue of smell. As chronicled inTo Chicago and Back, written after his return, Konstantinov discovers both the New World and the quintessence of his own nation on the famous Midway Plaisan…
Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Pomak Borderlands: Muslims on the Edge of Nations
We contact the world only through our boundaries. Blaga Dimitrova In a recent issue of the Bulgarian periodical Sega (Now) a reporter related an extraordinary tale of how various name-changing campaigns had marked the experience of a Bulgarian-speaking Muslim—hereafter “Pomak”—in the village of Bachkovo. The story began during the Balkan Wars in 1912–1913 when Hasan, the aforementioned Pomak from the Rhodope mountains of southern Bulgaria, was fo…
Difference Unveiled: Bulgarian National Imperatives and the Re-dressing of Muslim Women, 1878-1989
Recent scholarship has poignantly argued that the founding of modern “Western” nation-states is to a large degree a product of their drawn out colonial encounters with “the East.” It is convincingly argued that “the West” constructed its own self-assured, national and supra-national identities in the process of “discovering” and “inventing” the exotic yet inferior “East.” Furthermore, a diverse body of scholarship has delineated the central role …
The Russo‐Turkish war and the ‘Eastern Jewish question’: Encounters between victims and victors in Ottoman Bulgaria, 1877–8
(1996). The Russo‐Turkish war and the ‘Eastern Jewish question’: Encounters between victims and victors in Ottoman Bulgaria, 1877–8. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 53-66
Out From Under the Yoke: Rethinking Balkan Nationalism in Light of Recent Scholarship on Ottoman Longevity and Decline
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Difference Unveiled: Bulgarian National Imperatives and the Re-dressing of Muslim Women, 1878-1989
Recent scholarship has poignantly argued that the founding of modern “Western” nation-states is to a large degree a product of their drawn out colonial encounters with “the East.” It is convincingly argued that “the West” constructed its own self-assured, national and supra-national identities in the process of “discovering” and “inventing” the exotic yet inferior “East.” Furthermore, a diverse body of scholarship has delineated the central role …
Kebabche , Caviar or Hot Dogs? Consuming the Cold War at the Plovdiv Fair 1947–72
For the duration of the Cold War, hundreds of thousands of people descended on Plovdiv, Bulgaria for at least two weeks out of every year as spectators and consumers. During these weeks the Plovdiv International Fair grounds were like a portal through which the Iron Curtain was permeated and East-West interaction and exchange took place. The fair offered an array of images and goods that broadcast messages of power and plenty from a variety of st…
To Chicago and Back: Aleko Konstantinov, Rose Oil, and the Smell of Modernity
In 1893 Aleko Konstantinov undertook a momentous journey to the Chicago World's Fair. Mary Neuburger explores the broader implications of this journey and its consequences for the Bulgarian encounter with the west and modernity, drawing special attention to the issue of smell. As chronicled inTo Chicago and Back, written after his return, Konstantinov discovers both the New World and the quintessence of his own nation on the famous Midway Plaisan…
Introduction: Exhibiting Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Pomak Borderlands: Muslims on the Edge of Nations
We contact the world only through our boundaries. Blaga Dimitrova In a recent issue of the Bulgarian periodical Sega (Now) a reporter related an extraordinary tale of how various name-changing campaigns had marked the experience of a Bulgarian-speaking Muslim—hereafter “Pomak”—in the village of Bachkovo. The story began during the Balkan Wars in 1912–1913 when Hasan, the aforementioned Pomak from the Rhodope mountains of southern Bulgaria, was fo…
The Russo‐Turkish war and the ‘Eastern Jewish question’: Encounters between victims and victors in Ottoman Bulgaria, 1877–8
(1996). The Russo‐Turkish war and the ‘Eastern Jewish question’: Encounters between victims and victors in Ottoman Bulgaria, 1877–8. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 53-66
The Russo‐Turkish war and the ‘Eastern Jewish question’: Encounters between victims and victors in Ottoman Bulgaria, 1877–8
(1996). The Russo‐Turkish war and the ‘Eastern Jewish question’: Encounters between victims and victors in Ottoman Bulgaria, 1877–8. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 53-66
Out From Under the Yoke: Rethinking Balkan Nationalism in Light of Recent Scholarship on Ottoman Longevity and Decline
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Difference Unveiled: Bulgarian National Imperatives and the Re-dressing of Muslim Women, 1878-1989
Recent scholarship has poignantly argued that the founding of modern “Western” nation-states is to a large degree a product of their drawn out colonial encounters with “the East.” It is convincingly argued that “the West” constructed its own self-assured, national and supra-national identities in the process of “discovering” and “inventing” the exotic yet inferior “East.” Furthermore, a diverse body of scholarship has delineated the central role …
Pomak Borderlands: Muslims on the Edge of Nations
We contact the world only through our boundaries. Blaga Dimitrova In a recent issue of the Bulgarian periodical Sega (Now) a reporter related an extraordinary tale of how various name-changing campaigns had marked the experience of a Bulgarian-speaking Muslim—hereafter “Pomak”—in the village of Bachkovo. The story began during the Balkan Wars in 1912–1913 when Hasan, the aforementioned Pomak from the Rhodope mountains of southern Bulgaria, was fo…
Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
To Chicago and Back: Aleko Konstantinov, Rose Oil, and the Smell of Modernity
In 1893 Aleko Konstantinov undertook a momentous journey to the Chicago World's Fair. Mary Neuburger explores the broader implications of this journey and its consequences for the Bulgarian encounter with the west and modernity, drawing special attention to the issue of smell. As chronicled inTo Chicago and Back, written after his return, Konstantinov discovers both the New World and the quintessence of his own nation on the famous Midway Plaisan…
Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Book Review| April 01 2009 Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Nancy Parezo and Don Fowler. Mary Neuburger Mary Neuburger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (3): 101–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950
366 Book Reviews / Canadian – American Slavic Studies 44 (2010) 343–386 Melissa Feinberg. Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. x, 275 pp. $35.00. In the context of interwar Central and East European political developments, Czechoslovakia is always seen as exceptional, held up as a bastion of democracy in a sea of authoritarian regimes. Ce…
Introduction: Exhibiting Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Fair Encounters: Bulgaria and the "West" at International Exhibitions from Plovdiv to St. Louis
By the late nineteenth century, world's fairs had captured the imagination of Bulgarian political and intellectual elites. Bulgarians were not only enthusiastic pilgrims to the major world's fairs in the west, but by 1892 they had staged their own international trade exhibition in Plovdiv. Here, as elsewhere, the fair phenomenon was an arena for broadcasting messages of national prowess and progress, as well as a context for the performance and c…
Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
This title reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods.
Kebabche , Caviar or Hot Dogs? Consuming the Cold War at the Plovdiv Fair 1947–72
For the duration of the Cold War, hundreds of thousands of people descended on Plovdiv, Bulgaria for at least two weeks out of every year as spectators and consumers. During these weeks the Plovdiv International Fair grounds were like a portal through which the Iron Curtain was permeated and East-West interaction and exchange took place. The fair offered an array of images and goods that broadcast messages of power and plenty from a variety of st…
The Bulgarian Factor in Russia’s Revolutionary Era, 1917–23
In this article, I delve into the multifaceted roles and remarkable significance of the Bulgarian left in the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the tumultuous period that followed. In particular, I look at the ‘special relationship’ of the Bulgarian and Russian left and the concrete ways in which people, materials, and ideas were exchanged via various channels, in particular across the Black Sea. The loyalties, ties, and contributions of the Bulgar…
The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution: Introduction
Drinking to the Future: Wine in Communist Bulgaria
This article explores wine production, consumption and trade in the context of late socialist Bulgaria and the wider Eastern Bloc. In particular, it connects wine to the process of building legitimacy in Bulgaria, as part of post-Stalinist culture of consumer abundance and even connoisseurship that was steeped in nationalist narratives and meanings, as well as utopian visions of the future. To complicate such narratives, it also delves into the c…
Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria
Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania by Artan Hoxha
Artan Hoxha's Sugarland is a veritable breath of fresh air in the field of East European—and particularly, Albanian—studies. The literature in English on Albanian history is sparse, a hangover from the long decades of Communist rule that prevented access to archives, but also a result of the “little country problem” that plagues the East European field. Fortunately, the paucity of scholarly work on Albania published in English has been at least p…
Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition
Mediums, Media, and Mediated 'Post'-Truth: Baba Vanga in the Russian Imagination
It is impossible to understand the phenomenon of disinformation without unraveling the more perplexing notion of 'truth.' This article explores how a Bulgarian psychic or prophet named Baba Vanga (1911-1996) became one of the most noteworthy mediums of 'truth' in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian imagination. With Bulgarian-Russian transnational ties as context, we trace how belief in Baba Vanga's abilities and prophecies was propagated…
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