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Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves
Roshanna P. Sylvester
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Description for Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves
Hardcover. How did Odessans understand the city and their place in it? What did modernization mean in Odessa? Answering such questions, this book reveals the inner life of Odessa, in the years before WWI from the perspective of those who lived there. It is useful for those interested in urban culture, social history, the Jewish experience, and modern Russia. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
Odessa - founded by Catherine the Great, who insisted that her port on the Black Sea be named in the feminine - earned it's reputation for vibrancy. Sophisticated yet untamed, lively but dangerous, Russia's warm water port for trade flirted coquettishly with the West. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the city had become a volatile modern metropolis with an ethnically diverse population and a growing middle class. Known as the little Paris of the tsarist empire, Odessa was distinctly un-Russian in manner and disposition and strikingly unlike other imperial cities. Tales of Old Odessa ... Read more
Odessa - founded by Catherine the Great, who insisted that her port on the Black Sea be named in the feminine - earned it's reputation for vibrancy. Sophisticated yet untamed, lively but dangerous, Russia's warm water port for trade flirted coquettishly with the West. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the city had become a volatile modern metropolis with an ethnically diverse population and a growing middle class. Known as the little Paris of the tsarist empire, Odessa was distinctly un-Russian in manner and disposition and strikingly unlike other imperial cities. Tales of Old Odessa ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
536g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Dekalb, IL, United States
ISBN
9780875803463
SKU
V9780875803463
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About Roshanna P. Sylvester
ROSHANNA P. SYLVESTER is Assistant Professor of History at DePaul University in Chicago.
Reviews for Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves
This intriguing book is written in sprightly prose, infused with humor worthy of Odessans' famed sense of humor, and argued cogently. The reader feels as if the curtains of time are parted and she has suddenly taken residence in the city. - Patricia Herlihy, Brown University