Enlightened metropolis : constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 / by Alexander M. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Alexander M.

Series:

Oxford studies in modern European history.

Oxford studies in modern European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--18th century.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--19th century.

Moscow (Russia)--History--18th century.

Moscow (Russia).

Moscow (Russia)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through systematic comparisons with cities in Western Europe Alexander Martin situates Moscow in the context of the emergence of urban bourgeois civilization in the West, and helps the reader understand both how Moscow became a modern city and why this successful modernization paradoxically helped delegitimize the tsarist regime.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Enlightened Metropolis and the Imperial Social Project; Catherine's Critique of Moscow; Building the Enlightened Metropolis; The Imperial Social Project; Catherine's Reforms of Urban Society; Conclusion; 2. Space and Time in the Enlightened Metropolis; Urban Space and the Built Environment; Smell, Hygiene, and Water; Moscow Nights; Conclusion; 3. Envisioning the Enlightened Metropolis: Images of Moscow under Catherine II; The Russian Enlightenment; Cartography

History and StatisticsThe Graphic Arts; Conclusion; 4. Barbarism, Civility, Luxury: Writing about Moscow in the 1790s-1820s; Western Approaches to Writing about Cities; Western Impressions of Moscow; Karamzin and Sentimentalism; Karamzin and the City; The Luxury Debate; Malinovskii and Batiushkov; Conclusion; 5. Government, Aristocracy, and the Middling Sort; The Aristocracy and the Middling Sort; The Hierarchy of Wealth; Possessions and Social Status; Grandeur and Snobbery; Schools and Education; Conclusion; 6. The 1812 War; Russia's Elites and the War; Things Fall Apart; The Great Fear

Napoleon's Army in MoscowThe Popular Memory of the War; The Government's Response; The Meaning of the War; Conclusion; 7. Common Folk in Nicholaevan Moscow; The Goldsmith and his Notebook; Sushchevskaia District; Estates and Neighborhoods; Names and Identities; Urban Spaces; Family; Conclusion; 8. Complacency and Anxiety: Representations of Moscow under Nicholas I; Moscow and Official Nationality; Statistics and Social Analysis; Physiology and the Natural School; Physiologies of Moscow: Vistengof and Kokorev; Conclusion; Conclusion; Archival Sources; Primary Bibliography

Secondary BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 29, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-299-45778-9

0-19-164070-0

OCLC:

922971808