Imperial Odessa : people, spaces, identities / Evrydiki Sifneos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sifneos, Evrydiki, author.

Series:

Eurasian studies library ; Volume 8.

Eurasian Studies Library : History, Societies & Cultures in Eurasia, 1877-9484 ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Ukraine--Odesa--History.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Growth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities is a book about a cosmopolitan city written by a cosmopolitan scholar with a literary flair. Evrydiki Sifneos conceives Odessa as more of a fin-de siècle east Mediterranean port-metropolis than as a provincial port-city of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century due to two of its principal characteristics: its function as a hub of international trade and travel, and the multi-ethnic character of its inhabitants. The book unfolds around two interpenetrating axes. The first one introduces a new \'peripatetic\' approach that discovers the space of the city; and the other, the one that has given it its dynamic, is the socio-economic transformations that germinated within the political changes.

Contents:

Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa’s History

Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism

Toward a Consumer Society

Merchants and Entrepreneurs

The Springtime of the Public Sphere

The Two Sides of the Moon

The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004351622

90-04-35162-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004351622 DOI