Serhiy Bilenky

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands

Kyiv, 1800-1905

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv’s rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians, urbanists, and literary scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 612
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501723
• ISBN-10: 1487501722
• Artikelnr.: 47972616

Autorenporträt

Serhiy Bilenky is a research fellow in at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has taught at Columbia University and Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction
Part I Representing the City
Chapter 1 Mapping the city in transition
Chapter 2 Using the past: The great cemetery of Rus’
Part II Making the City
Chapter 3 Municipal autonomy under the Magdeburg Law, 1800-1835
Chapter 4 Planning a new city: empire transforms space, 1835-1870
Chapter 5 Municipal autonomy reloaded: space for sale, 1871-1905
Part III Peopling the City
Chapter 6 Counting Kyivites: the language of class, religion, and ethnicity
Chapter 7 Municipal elites and "urban regimes": continuities and
disruptions
Part IV Living (in) the City
Chapter 8 Sociospatial form and psychogeography
 Chapter 9 What language did the monuments speak?
Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands
Notes
Bibliography 560
Index