{"product_id":"imperial-urbanism-in-the-borderlands-kyiv-1800-1905-hardback-9781487501723","title":"Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands; Kyiv, 1800-1905 (Hardback) 9781487501723","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImperial Urbanism in the Borderlands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eKyiv, 1800-1905\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSerhiy Bilenky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487501723\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e612 pages, 26 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 7 b\u0026amp;w maps, 32 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.88 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bilenky\u0026amp;#x2019;s history of Kyiv is probing, timely, and heady.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Steven Seegal, University of Northern Colorado (Slavic Review, vol 78 no 2) \u003cp\u003e\"This detailed and thoroughly studied examination of Kyiv\u0026amp;#x2019;s urbanism addresses an important gap in the contemporary scholarship on Ukraine\u0026amp;#x2019;s modern history. Thanks to its methodological approach and comparative references, Kyiv\u0026amp;#x2019;s modernism is set into a wider perspective of Europe\u0026amp;#x2019;s urban development.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Olena Palko, University of London (\u003cem\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"This well-researched monograph is an excellent starting point for all further work and will be of great interest to both specialists and the general public alike.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Fabian Baumann, University of Basel (\u003cem\u003eEast\/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\"Bilenky creates his detailed image of the city thanks to painstaking study of a multitude of published and unpublished sources. His archival research sheds light on various aspects, especially municipal administration, urban planning, the social structure, and the real estate market. The result is enjoyable reading that adds substantively to our knowledge of Kyiv and Ukrainian society in the nineteenth century.\" \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Johannes Remy, University of Helsinki (\u003cem\u003eHarvard Ukrainian Studies Journal\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the nineteenth and early twentieth century Kyiv was an important city in the European part of the Russian empire, rivaling Warsaw in economic and strategic significance. It also held the unrivaled spiritual and ideological position as Russia\u0026amp;#x2019;s own Jerusalem. In \u003ci\u003eImperial Urbanism in the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e, Serhiy Bilenky examines issues of space, urban planning, socio-spatial form, and the perceptions of change in imperial Kyiv. Combining cultural and social history with urban studies, Bilenky unearths a wide range of unpublished archival materials and argues that the changes experienced by the city prior to the revolution of 1917 were no less dramatic and traumatic than those of the Communist and post-Communist era. In fact, much of Kyiv\u0026amp;#x2019;s contemporary urban form, architecture, and natural setting were shaped by imperial modernizers during the long nineteenth century. The author also explores a general culture of imperial urbanism in Eastern Europe.  \u003ci\u003eImperial Urbanism in the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv\u0026amp;#x2019;s rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians, urbanists, and literary scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I Representing the City\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Mapping the city in transition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Using the past: \u003ci\u003eThe great cemetery of Rus\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Making the City\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Municipal autonomy under the Magdeburg Law, 1800-1835\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Planning a new city: empire transforms space, 1835-1870\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Municipal autonomy reloaded: space for sale, 1871-1905\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III Peopling the City\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Counting Kyivites: the language of class, religion, and ethnicity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Municipal elites and \"urban regimes\": continuities and disruptions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV Living (in) the City\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Sociospatial form and psychogeography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Chapter 9 What language did the monuments speak?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Towards a Theory of Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 560\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685660913944,"sku":"9781487501723","price":54.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imperial-urbanism-in-the-borderlands-kyiv-1800-1905-hardback-9781487501723","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}