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This book examines the activities of the Greeks of South Russia during the Imperial era by focusing on the Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (GBAO). Odessa had the largest concentration of urban Greeks in the Russian empire, and the Greeks enjoyed economic and social prestige. While the stated goals of the GBAO were charitable, many of the organization s activities were nevertheless political. Because of the wealth and power of the GBAO, and its failure to openly antagonize the tsarist regime, the GBAO was able to avoid the most onerous provisions of the russification laws being pursuing by the government during the Imperial era.
Mazis, John, A. The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (1871-1917). Private Charity and Diaspora Leadership in late Imperial Russia, Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1998
The thesis analyzes the Greek community of Odessa and it investigates its role in development of the Russian economy/ Η εργασία αναφέρεται στην ελληνική παροικία της Οδησσού και ερευνά το ρόλο της στην ανάπτυξη της ρωσικής οικονομίας.
Mc Kay, John, Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913, Chicago University Press, Chicago 1970
Foreign investment increased from 17 percent of the capital of industrial corporations in Imperial Russia in 1880 to 47 percent in 1914, coinciding with the rapid development of Russian industrialization before World War I. The present study, based largely on intensive research in numerous archives and utilizing many previously unexplored private business records, is the first detailed analysis of the impact of foreign enterprise on Russian industry during this period.
McCabe, Ina Baghdiantz - Harlaftis, Gelina - Minoglou, Ioanna (eds), Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks. Five Centuries of History, Oxford: Berg Publications, 2005
The present volume offers a new framework for understanding globalization over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping, and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, this book shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible. The study argues that the combination of overseas connections and close ties to home ports contributed to globalization. It also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping's complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars and chronicles transformations in hierarchies, culture, identities, and port city space, all of which produced a new and different maritime world by the end of the century.
Mironov, Boris, A social history of Imperial Russia 1700-1917, Westview Press, Oxford 2000
This volume is a comprehensive synthesis of Russian social history from Peter the Great to the October Revolution of 1917. The book begins with background information on pre-Petrine Russia and then focuses on the crucial events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He demonstrates how social events in this period--including the creation of a modernized autocratic state, the abolition of serfdom, increasing urbanization, and the first stirrings of capitalism (to name a few)--played out in the Revolution, and beyond.
Mollenkopf, John Hull, Power, culture, and place: essays onNew YorkCity,Russell Sage Foundation, New York 1988
The essays in this volume explore economic growth and change and the social conflicts that accompanied them in the dynamic context of New York city. Other papers suggest how popular culture, public space, and street life served as sources of order amidst conflict and disorder. Essays on politics and pluralism offer further reflections on how social tensions are harnessed in the framework of political participation. By examining the intersection of economics, culture, and politics in a shared spatial context, these multidisciplinary essays not only illuminate the City's fascinating and complex development.
. Other papers suggest how popular culture, public space, and street life served as sources of order amidst conflict and disorder. Essays on politics and pluralism offer further reflections on how social tensions are harnessed in the framework of political participation. By examining the intersection of economics, culture, and politics in a shared spatial context, these multidisciplinary essays not only illuminate the City's fascinating and complex development, but also highlight the significance of a sense of "place" for social research.
Focusing on three historical transformations—the mercantile, industrial, and postindustrial—several contributors
Morozan, V.V., The operation of the Azov-Don Commercial Bank in the south of Russia at the end of the XIX century, St. Petersburg State Agrarian University
The book describes the rise of the commercial banking system of the areas of Azov in southern Russia/ Το βιβλίο περιγράφει την άνοδο του εμπορικοτραπεζικού συστήματος από τις περιοχές της Αζοφικής στη νότια Ρωσία.
Nolde, Baron Boris E., Russia in the Economic War, Yale University Press, New Haven 1928
Oliphant, Laurence, The Russian shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852 with a voyage down the Volga, and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks, William Blackwood and Sons, London 1854
This book is a narrative of the journey Oliver Oliphant, author of travel diaries and novels, traveller, correspondent for The Times during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) and Secretary to British Diplomat Lord Elgin, made to Russia as a young man, with his friend Oswald Smith. From the splendour of mid-nineteenth-century St Petersburg, to the annexation of the Crimea, and the international consequences of Russian foreign policy for Europe, this illustrated book is also full of witty anecdotes and captivating descriptions.
Oscanyan, C., Pleasure trip to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. A party of gentlemen who, with their families, desire to visit the east and the shores of the Mediterranean, will charter a first-class steamer to start on the 12th of May, 1866, for a voyage of ten months ...[New York: s.n., 1866]
The RUSCORP database is a body of machine-readable information illuminating the rise of capitalist institutions in tsarist Russia. Specifically, it presents profiles of all for-profit corporations founded in the Russian Empire (except in the Grand Duchy of Finland) from the time of Peter the Great to the eve of World War I. RUSCORP describes the initial state of these companies at the time of their incorporation as well as their condition in 1847, 1869, 1874, 1892, 1905, and 1914.
Owen, Thomas C., Russian Corporate Capitalism. from Peter the Great to Perestroika, Oxford University Press, New York 1995
The present volume focuses on the large entreprises founded in the Russian Empire from the 18th to the 20th century. The analysis focuses on companies as leagl entities, mostly involved in industry spread all over the Russian Empire. Several other aspects of these firms are recorded and treated statistically are the location, the size of investment, the industrial sector and the social status and ethnicity of the firms managers.
Owen, Thomas, Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855-1905, Cambridge University Press, New York 1981
This monograph - based largely on memoirs, diaries, archival documents and other primary sources - represents a comprehensive social history of the Moscow merchants in the period between 1855 and 1905.
Ozveren, Eyup, “Shipbuilding, 1590-1790” in Review (Fernand Braudel Center), vol. 23, no.1, Commodity Chains in the World-Economy, 1590–1790, 2000, pp. 15-86
This work surveys shipbuilding by way of a commodity-chain approach. During the two centuries prior to the so-called "Industrial Revolution" shipbuilding was already characterized by many of the distinguishing attributes of an industrial activity, such as labor organization and technology, as far as manufacturing within the shipyards was concerned. Shifts in major sites of shipyards are traced giving a picture in which the Mediterranean world yields its primacy to the Atlantic seaboard, more specifically to the United Provinces first, and then to England, and finally to the North American colonies. Because of the commodity-chain approach adopted, the article deals not only with the activities concentrated within the shipyards, but also the processing and procurement of naval supplies such as timber and masts, flax used for sailcloth, hemp used for ropes, pitch and tar used for protection, and iron used for anchors and nails. Shifts in loci of production of these supplies, changes in their technologies of production, and organization of provisioning are depicted at length. The article demonstrates that the specific dates chosen for inquiry help delineate important periodic transformations within each part of the process as well as for the entirety of the commodity chain.
Özveren, Y. Eyüp. 1997. “A Framework for the Study of the Black Sea World, 1789-1915”. Review (fernand Braudel Center) 20 (1). Research Foundation of SUNY: 77–113. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40241390.
Studies of the nineteenth-century Ottoman and Russian Empires as well as of the numerous nation-states that came into existence around the Black Sea have mostly been pursued separately. This article attempts to offer an alternative framework of analysis for the study of the Black Sea world during the nineteenth century. It starts off from Femand Braudel's approach to the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world in order to discuss whether and to what extent the Black Sea region could also be conceived as a world. Not only structural similarities but also historically-specific circumstances are emphasized for supporting the parallel drawn between the sixteenth-century Mediterranean and the nineteenth-century Black Sea. A number of further intellectual questions are raised in order to demonstrate that a holistic perspective has much to offer for re-directing academic research into more promising problem areas.
O’Neill, Kelly Ann, Between Subversion and Submission: The Integration of the Crimean Khanate into the Russian Empire 1783-1853, Harvard University, Harvard 2006
When we probe at the notion of integration itself more closely, we begin to see that it meant a variety of things. This dissertation challenges the notion that integration was consistently the goal of both imperial officials and the local elites. In Crimea, Catherine declared the local Muslim elite to be the equivalent of Russian nobles, granted them officer ranks, and appointed them to positions in the civil administration. But the empire-building experiment took place just as authorities began to move away from pre-modern multiethnic model, toward the imposition of Russian institutions and centrally-defined hierarchies. The Crimeans' response to this took a fascinating turn. They compiled service records and participated in noble assemblies. But they retained their cultural identity and constantly sought acceptance in imperial society on their own terms. Ultimately, they came to the conclusion that living in, let alone contributing to, the empire was simply not in their interests. By the 1840s, officials found that many Crimeans had long since emigrated, died, or lost interest in integration. Content with their status as unofficial nobles, they remained practitioners of a remarkably neutral, non-committal approach to the Russian empire-building project.
Peters, Edward W., Russian cereal crops, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911
The book discusses the activities and habits of the inhabitants of these cities/ Το βιβλίο αναφέρεται στις δραστηριότητες και στις συνήθειες των κατοίκων των πόλεων αυτών.