Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction viii
5. Part One. Culture
6. CHAPTER 1. The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth 2
7. CHAPTER 2. Odessa Memories 27
8. CHAPTER 3. How Ukrainian Is Odesa? From Odessa to Odesa 74
9. CHAPTER 4. Jewish Writers of Odessa 1800–1940 83
10. Part Two. Community
11. CHAPTER 5. Death in Odessa: A Study of Population Movements in a Nineteenth-Century City 100
12. CHAPTER 6. The Ethnic Composition of the City of Odessa in the Nineteenth Century 117
13. CHAPTER 7. Greek Merchants in Odessa in the Nineteenth Century 137
14. CHAPTER 8. The Greek Community in Odessa, 1861–1917 154
15. Part Three. Commerce
16. CHAPTER 9. Odessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New Russia 170
17. CHAPTER 10. Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia 182
18. CHAPTER 11. Port Jews of Odessa and Trieste— A Tale of Two Cities 196
19. CHAPTER 12. Russian Wheat and the Port of Livorno 1794–1865 209
20. CHAPTER 13. South Ukraine as an Economic Region in the Nineteenth Century 226
21. Index 246