"This is a terrific book, a product of extensive research in Albanian archives and sources combined with a thoughtful engagement with the central problems of the Cold War and the contemporary era." https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php -- Austin Jersild * H-Net Reviews * "Albania has long been a kind of terra incognita for the East European field, given the scarcity of anglophone work until quite recently. Sugarland brings Albania back into the various trajectories and developments of regional and global history. This book is groundbreaking, original, and a joy to read. It makes a major contribution to Albanian, Balkan, East European (and European), and commodity history and is a must read in the field." https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article-abstract/25/4/267/118960/Sugarland-The-Tr ansformation-of-the-Countryside-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext -- Mary Neuburger * Journal of Cold War Studies * "Hoxha marshals an impressive source base to bring these threads together: official documents from state and party archives, contemporaneous illustrations, maps, geological data, as well as insights obtained via fieldwork carried out over many years. Such is the richness of Hoxhas account that it manages to speak articulately to a wide range of readers. Its present political resonance is also clear. Hoxha writes about how 'development remains an elusive target that keeps slipping away'. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/artan-r-hoxha-s ugarland-the-transformation-of-the-countryside-in-communist-albania-central-e uropean-university-press-2023-xi-306-pp-notes-bibliography-index-photographs- maps-9500-hard-bound/6BC2C6E29A7824BD9C6070E880582898 -- Elidor Mėhilli * Slavic Review *
