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

• Superior document: Eurasian Studies Library : History, Societies & Cultures in Eurasia, Volume 8
• VerfasserIn: Sifneos, Evrydiki,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Eurasian studies library ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 pages).

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.

Table of 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.