(H/B) IMPERIAL ODESSA

Παρουσίαση

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 si?cle 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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa's History
Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism
Toward a Consumer Society
Tastes, Markets and Political Liberalism
Merchants and Entrepreneurs
The Driving Forces of Odessa's Economy
The Springtime of the Public Sphere
The Two Sides of the Moon
Ethnic Clashes and Tolerance in a Cosmopolitan City
The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City