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OverviewIn 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's own Jerusalem. In Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands, 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 Combining cultural and social history with urban studies, Bilenky unearths a wide range of unpublished archival materials and argues that the changes experienced by the city prior to the revolution of 1917 were no less dramatic and traumatic than those of the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'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. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Serhiy BilenkyPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.880kg ISBN: 9781487501723ISBN 10: 1487501722 Pages: 612 Publication Date: 06 April 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsBilenky's history of Kyiv is probing, timely, and heady. -- Steven Seegal, University of Northern Colorado * Slavic Review, vol 78 no 2 * Author InformationSerhiy 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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