{"product_id":"imperial-odessa-peoples-spaces-identities-9789004313606","title":"Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImperial 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa’s History  1 The Peripatetic Approach  2 The Socio-economic Approach 1 Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism  1 Port-City Identities and Cosmopolitanism  2 Enlightened Administrators  3 The People of the Port  4 Influences from Without and Within  5 The Connectedness of Odessa  6 Travel Destination and Relay  7 The Demographic Snapshot  8 Residential Porosity: The Mikhel’son Apartment Building in Aleksandrovskii District  9 Images, Representations, Comparisons 2 Toward a Consumer Society: Tastes, Markets and Political Liberalism  1 The Rise of a Consumer Society  2 Markets  3 Provisioning the City  4 Profile of the Merchant-Entrepreneurs Involved in Foreign Trade and Their Specialisations  5 Patterns of Successful Business  6 The Evolution of Markets in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century  7 Political Liberalism: The Parallel Activity of the Union of Welfare and the Greek Secret Society  8 Imagining Greece’s Independence in Odessa’s Greek Market  9 History of the Philiki Etaireia  10 Facilitating Factors for Political Fermentation  11 The Commercial Outlook of the Greek Society of Friends 3 Merchants and Entrepreneurs: The Driving Forces of Odessa’s Economy  1 Industry in Odessa  2 Types of Entrepreneurs and Strategies  3 The Port and the Exporter  4 Middlemen: The Period of Transition  5 Real Estate Owners in Odessa  6 The Diversified Entrepreneur  7 The “Political” Entrepreneur  8 At the Commercial Court  9 Transcending Communal Boundaries in Capital Raising 4 The Springtime of the Public Sphere  1 Public Spaces  2 Civil Society?  3 Associations, Societies, Professional Societies  4 Workers’ Associations  5 Ethnic Minority Associations  6 Charity as a Culture  7 Án Example of Commercial Charity: The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa  8 Towards a Longed-for Multi-Ethnic Society: Odessa 1907–1914 5 The Two Sides of the Moon: Ethnic Clashes and Tolerance in a Cosmopolitan City  1 Co-existence and Tolerance in the Upper Classes  2 Rivalry in the Middle Classes  3 Separation and Conflict in the Lower Strata  4 Crisis Management and the Responsibilities of the Local Authorities  5 Stereotypes  6 Impact of the Pogroms and Civic Drawbacks  7 Non-ethnic Violence 6 The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City  1 Áftermath: The Four Stories  2 Politicization during the School Years   2.1 Gymnasia Militancy   2.2 Acquaintances   2.3 The Illegal Literature  3 Between Judicial Responsibility, Passion for Music and Revolution   3.1 1918 – Law Service, Music and German Occupation   3.2 1919 – Farewell to the Violoncello  4 Between War and Revolution   4.1 The February Revolution   4.2 The October Revolution   4.3 The Bolsheviks in Odessa (January–March)   4.4 Odessa under Austro-German Occupation (March–November 1918)   4.5 The Allied Intervention (French and Greeks in Odessa) – December 1918–March 1919   4.6 The Departure  5 At the Gen Factory in Peresyp’   5.1 Ideology and Workers’ Demands in 1917   5.2 The Battle for the Eight-Hour Workday   5.3 Bombshells into Ploughshares   5.4 At Odessa’s Companies   5.5 The “Sale” of the Factory  6 Peoples and Identities  7 Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Index of Names Index of Places Index of Subjects","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210683113815,"sku":"9789004313606","price":110.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imperial-odessa-peoples-spaces-identities-9789004313606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}