Odessa Recollected

The Port and the People

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Odessa, a Black Sea port founded by Catherine the Great in 1794, shortly after the territory was wrested from the Ottoman Empire, became a boomtown on the southern fringe of the Russian Empire. Catherine and the early administrators of the city, such as the Duke de Richelieu, promoted settlement by Europeans in addition to the Greek, Italians, and Jews who came on their own initiative to take advantage of economic opportunities in the robust grain trade with Europe. More ethnically diverse by far than St. Petersburg, Odessa became a remarkable independent-minded, large cosmopolitan city, attracting and producing noted writers, artists, musicians and scholars.Imperial Russian tsars and Soviet leaders maintained an ambivalent attitude towards the maverick city, appreciating the fame and fortune it generated, but also leery of the activities of secret foreign national societies, pogromists, revolutionaries and simply the perceived lack of patriotism in the singular city so far away from the heart of Russia. With the withering of the lucrative grain trade by the time of the Soviet Union, Odessa became a neglected city, drained of its foreign flavor. With the independence of Ukraine in 1991, there were hopes raised that the architectural beauty and economic prospects of the city would be revived. Given the current hostilities in Eastern Ukraine with the potential of the Odessa area becoming a possible land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, the fate of the former Pearl of the Black Sea hangs in suspension.The present book brings together—indeed, re-collects—some of the most valuable and thought-provoking research on Odessa and its culture, community, and economy published by Patricia Herlihy over several decades of her work. Scholars of Ukraine, Russia, and the former Soviet Union will find in this book a helpful resource for their research and teaching.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-02-14
Mått177 x 254 x 20 mm
Vikt628 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieUkrainian Studies
Antal sidor256
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781618117366

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A native San Franciscan, Patricia Herlihy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and obtained her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Odessa: A History 1794-1914 (Harvard University Press. 1987); The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2002); Vodka: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2012). She is Professor Emerita from Brown University (2001) and Louise Wyant Professor Emerita, Emmanuel College (2009). Currently Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is a former Co-Master (with David Herlihy) of Mather House Harvard University (1976-1986). She has six children and six grandchildren.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: CultureThe Persuasive Power of the Odessa MythOdessa MemoriesHow Ukrainian Is Odesa? From Odessa to OdesaJewish Writers of OdessaPart 2: CommunityDeath in Odessa: A Study of Population Movements in a Nineteenth-Century CityThe Ethnic Composition of Odessa in the Nineteenth CenturyGreek Merchants in Odessa in the Nineteenth CenturyThe Greek Community in Odessa, 1861–1917Part 3: CommerceOdessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New RussiaCommerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial RussiaPort Jews of Odessa and Trieste: A Tale of Two CitiesRussian Wheat and the Port of Livorno, 1794–1865The South Ukraine as an Economic Region in the Nineteenth Century

“With a profound understanding of the multi-ethnic and multilingual character of the city, Herlihy brings together the life stories of famous Odessites with a rich discussion of Odessa’s unique political, sociocultural, and economic conditions across the centuries. In sum, Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People is a crucial read for all those studying or even visiting Odessa, the ‘Pearl by the Sea’.”— Ivan Kozachenko, Journal of European Studies