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Odessa : genius and death in a city of dreams / Charles King.
Van Pelt Library DK508.95.O33 K5 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Charles, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects.
- History.
- Cruelty--Social aspects.
- Cruelty.
- Genius.
- Social aspects.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Social change.
- Jews.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--History.
- Odesa (Ukraine).
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Social conditions.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Biography.
- Jews--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Social change--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Cultural pluralism--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Cosmopolitanism--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Genius--Social aspects--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Cruelty--Social aspects--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Death--Social aspects--Ukraine--Odesa--History.
- Death.
- Ukraine--Odesa.
- Ukraine.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. City of dreams
- ch. 1. The sinister shore
- ch. 2. Potemkin and the mercenaries
- ch. 3. Beacon
- ch. 4. The governor and the poet
- ch. 5. "There is nothing national about Odessa"
- pt. 2. The habitations of cruelty
- ch. 6. Schemes and shadows
- ch. 7. Blood and vengeance
- ch. 8. New world
- ch. 9. The fields of Transnistria
- ch. 10. "I would like to bring to your attention the following"
- pt. 3. Nostalgia and remembrance
- ch. 11. Hero city
- ch. 12. Twilight
- Chronology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-323) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Writing Based on Archival Material, Winner, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780393070842
- 0393070840
- OCLC:
- 601107866
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