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Although “Oil Empire” is a work of scholarship, Frank didn’t intend for it to be a book that only scholars would read. For her, the key to writing and teaching history is to find out how it matters to people who are interested and intelligent but not experts...
That’s because Galicia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now a region split between Poland and Ukraine, is not exactly known for its oil reserves. By 2005, careful research and writing turned the question into an award-winning book, “Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia.” She discovered that an oil boom had occurred in Galicia during the 19th century, but overeager extraction of the resource spurred by a lack of government regulation led to a shortage of oil in the empire by World...
...speaks German, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Italian. She praises the language courses at Harvard to which she always refers students seeking to do research in a particular region. Even she has taken up Italian classes in the Romance Languages and Literatures department in preparation for her next book on the port city of Trieste...
...Frederick, a former editor atTIME, is writing a book about Green's unit, titled Black Hearts: One Platoon's Disintegration in the Triangle of Death and the American Ordeal in Iraq, which is to be published in spring 2010 by Harmony Books...
...putting more pressure on the survivors. "The crisis hits China's private sector really hard because China's private sector accounts for a larger share of China's manufactured exports," says Yasheng Huang, an MIT professor who wrote about the rising power of SOEs in his 2008 book [Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics]. "So essentially you have a private sector whose main source of customers has just disappeared...