Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands : : Kyiv, 1800-1905 /

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands : : Kyiv, 1800-1905 / / Serhiy Bilenky.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century Kyiv was an important city in the European part of the Russian empire, rivaling Warsaw in economic and strategic significance. It also held the unrivaled spiritual and ideological position as Russia’s own Jerusalem. In Imperial Urbanism in the Borderland...

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Bilenky, Serhiy,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Representing the City
  • Chapter One. Mapping the City in Transition
  • Chapter Two. Using the Past: The Great Cemetery of Rus’
  • PART TWO. Making the City
  • Chapter Three. Municipal Autonomy under the Magdeburg Law, 1800–1835
  • Chapter Four. Planning a New City: Empire Transforms Space, 1835–1870
  • Chapter Five. Municipal Autonomy Reloaded: Space for Sale, 1871–1905
  • Maps
  • PART THREE. Peopling the City
  • Chapter Six. Counting Kyivites: The Language of Class, Religion, and Ethnicity
  • Chapter Seven. Municipal Elites and “Urban Regimes”: Continuities and Disruptions
  • PART FOUR. Living (in) the City
  • Chapter Eight. Sociospatial Form and Psychogeography
  • Chapter Nine. What Language Did the Monuments Speak?
  • Conclusions: Towards a Theory of Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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