Enlightened Metropolis Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855

Through systematic comparisons with cities in Western Europe, Alexander Martin situates Moscow in the context of the emergence of urban bourgeois civilization in the West, and helps the reader understand both how Moscow became a modern city and why this successful modernization paradoxically helped delegitimize the tsarist regime.

About the author

Alexander M. Martin is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame (USA). He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997).

Summary

Through systematic comparisons with cities in Western Europe, Alexander Martin situates Moscow in the context of the emergence of urban bourgeois civilization in the West, and helps the reader understand both how Moscow became a modern city and why this successful modernization paradoxically helped delegitimize the tsarist regime.

Additional text

an enormously rich account based on extensive historical research ... contextualizing Moscow's history within the wider history of urban Europe, and providing an account illuminating the city's history from a number of competing perspectives -- including those of the rich, poor, and middling, as well as those of foreigners. Martin's is thus a well-rounded history of Moscow as an idea, a built environment, and a lived community.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander M. Martin, Alexander M. (Associate Professor of History Martin, Alexander M. (Associate Professor of Histo Martin, Martin Alexander M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.10.2014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History
• EAN: 9780198722885
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872288-5
• Pages: 360
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ; Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ; Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
• Subjects: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history