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Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
By Brown, Kate
- ISBN
- 9780226242798 9780226242828
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on April 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Brown's (history, Univ. of Maryland) unusual, bordering-on-bizarre book addresses "dystopia." One definition of dystopia is "an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives." An alternative meaning is "anti-utopia." Since all of the places Brown writes about (Kazakhstan; Montana; Chernobyl and Uman in the Ukraine; Seattle; radioactive Russian villages; Elg...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
