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Explores the Ukrainian city of Odessa - formerly an economic asset for the Russian Empire and a resort town for the Soviet Union, and always a non-conformist city, it has become a contested area. Given the current hostilities in Eastern Ukraine, and with the potential for Odessa to become a possible land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, the fate of the former Pearl of the Black Sea hangs in suspension.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Culture
The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth
Odessa Memories
How Ukrainian Is Odesa? From Odessa to Odesa
Jewish Writers of Odessa
Part 2: Community
Death in Odessa: A Study of Population Movements in a Nineteenth-Century City
The Ethnic Composition of Odessa in the Nineteenth Century
Greek Merchants in Odessa in the Nineteenth Century
The Greek Community in Odessa, 1861–1917
Part 3: Commerce
Odessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New Russia
Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia
Port Jews of Odessa and Trieste: A Tale of Two Cities
Russian Wheat and the Port of Livorno, 1794–1865
The South Ukraine as an Economic Region in the Nineteenth Century
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A native San Franciscan, Patricia Herlihy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and obtained her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Odessa: A History 1794-1914 (Harvard University Press. 1987); The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2002); Vodka: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2012). She is Professor Emerita from Brown University (2001) and Louise Wyant Professor Emerita, Emmanuel College (2009). Currently Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is a former Co-Master (with David Herlihy) of Mather House Harvard University (1976-1986). She has six children and six grandchildren.
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The present book brings together—indeed, re-collects—some of the most valuable and thought-provoking research on Odessa and its culture, community, and economy published by Patricia Herlihy over several decades of her work. Scholars of Ukraine, Russia, and the former Soviet Union will find in this book a helpful resource for their research and teaching.
