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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.
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
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.
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.
Przygrodzki, Robert, Russians in Warsaw: Imperialism and National Identity, 1863-1915, Northern Illinois University, 2007
The present volume examines the links between the Russian imperial project in Poland and Russian national identities. By studying the development of Russian national identity in the context of the Russo-Polish conflict, the book defines its contours in an important Russian borderland. Through the use of archival documents, memoirs, the local Russian press, and the annual reports of Varsovian Russian organizationsfrom Warsaw's repositories, it is demonstrating that the local Russian leadership was anxious about the preservation of Russianness within their community.
Reichman, Henry, "The Rostov General Strike of 1902." in Russian History, vol. 9, pt. I, 1982, pp. 67-85.
This paper deals with the general strike of 1902 in Rostov as one of the chain of events which led to the rise of a proletarian revolutionary movement. In particular it was the first instance in Russian history where a labor movement was combined with the organized educated classes for political change.
Shaw, Denis J.B., "Urbanism and economic development in pre industrial context: the case of southern Russia", Journal of history Geographic, vol. 3, No. 2 (1977), pp. 107-122
Russia's southern frontier in the seventeenth century was continuously menaced by the nomadic Tatars who inhabited the open steppe grasslands. In this situation the Russian government attempted to harness all the frontier's sources to the cause of defence by founding a series of military towns which could control and direct the process of settlement. Government control, however, did not extend to the widespread illegal migration and settlement of runaway serfs. In a later period, as the Tatar threat subsided and colonization continued, the importance of most of the towns diminished and a system of secondary central places arose as trade expanded. But the oldest towns retained their importance in this changing social and economic situation, becoming higher-order central places for long-distance trade and, increasingly, centres for agricultural processing. Urbanism and economic development in a pre-industrial context: the case of southern Russia.
Skinner, Frederick W., City planning in Russia: The development of Odessa, 1789-1892, (s.l): Princeton University, Ph.D., 1973, c. 1974
The desertation examines the urban development of the city of Odessa in the period 1789-1892/ Η διατριβή αφορά την αστική ανάπτυξη της πόλης της Οδησσού κατά την περίοδο 1789-1892.
Spenser, Edmund, Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, and C: Including a steam voyagedown the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black Sea, London: Henry Colburn, 1839, vol. I-II
The article refers to crew reports of a steamboat in the Mediterranean and Black Sea/ Το άρθρο αναφέρεται σε αναφορές του πληρώματος ενός ατμόπλοιου σε Μεσόγειο και Μαύρη θάλασσα.
Starns, Karl E. Μ., TheRussian Railwaysand Imperial Intersections in the Russian Empire, University of Washington, 2012
This study will focus on the confluence of Russian railroad development and its role in Russia‟s imperial intersections. It will analyze the construction of Russian railways as a locus point of imperial intersections between France and the Russian Empire and illustrate the profundity they can have. The Russian railways serve as a locus point for Russian industrialization, finance, international relations, military preparedness, top level government decision making with French military planning, security, financial interests, and international prestige. This case study is an attempt to illustrate the extent to which international relations between empires and their domestic policies were interconnected by the last half of the nineteenth century up until the outbreak of the First World War.
Stevens, Robert, An account of Odessa, New Port: William Simson, 1819
The report refers to the description of the city of St. Petersburg/ Η έκθεση αναφέρεται στην περιγραφή της πόλης της Αγίας Πετρούπολης.
Taitbout de Marigny, Edouard, chevalier, Three voyages in the Black Sea to the coast of Circassia: including descriptions of the ports, and the importance of their trade: with sketches of the manners, customs, religion, London: J. Murray, 1837
Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish humor brought there in the 19th century from the shtetls of Eastern Europe and that flourished throughout Soviet times. From a broad historical perspective, this volume examines the hybrid Judeo-Russian culture that emerged in Odessa in the 19th century and persisted through the Soviet era and beyond. The book shows how the art of eminent Soviet-era figures such as Isaac Babel, Il'ia Ilf, Evgenii Petrov, and Leonid Utesov grew out of the Odessa Russian-Jewish culture into which they were born and which shaped their lives.
Terristori, Conte, A Geographical, statistical and commercial account of the Russian ports of the Black Sea, the Sea of Asoph and the Danube: also an official report of the European commerce of Russia in 1835, London: A. Schloss, foreign book and print seller, 1837
The article is a commercial and geographic reference to the cities-ports of the Black Sea/ Το άρθρο αποτελεί εμπορική και γεωγραφική αναφορά στις πόλεις-λιμάνια της Μαύρης θάλασσας.
Tuckey, James Hingston, Maritime geography and statistics, vol. I, London: Black, Parry & Co., 1819
The text mentions geographical and shipping information on the seas and coasts/ Το κείμενο αναφέρει γεωγραφικές και ναυτιλιακές πληροφορίες για τις θάλασσες και τις ακτές.
Tuna, Mustafa O., Imperial Russia's Muslims: Inroads of Modernity, Princeton University, Princeton 2009
Especially after the 1870s, reformist Muslim intellectuals and the Russian state provided two of those channels, and this dissertation argues that both of them failed in their aims. Several thousand Muslim reformists represented an opportunity for social mobilization, but then, they lost touch with the broader Muslim population, in effect distancing themselves from the values upheld by Muslim peasants. Moreover, the Russian state accused Muslim reformists of separatism and suppressed their activities. At the same time, Russian statesmen increasingly sought a more homogeneous population in order to keep Russia strong in the global competition for power and wanted to transform Muslims accordingly. But, agents of the imperial state could not enforce homogenizing policies compellingly while trying to maintain the regionally heterogeneous and non-participatory imperial governing system.
United States, Black Sea pilot, the Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, Black Sea and Sea of Azov, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927
