In an "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. He shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence. This carefully detailed account reveals another side of the city's history. It helps to put present events in context, showing that at least one of the 'new' nationalisms in the former Soviet Union has old and very deep roots.

In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale, as World War II brought the mass murder of Jews carried out by the city’s Romanian occupiers. Odessa is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa’s dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach. 25 illustrations

Through Time: New York City tells the story of the Big Apple from its native American origins to the present - including the arrival of European settlers, the growth of trade, immigration, and great feats of engineering such as the Brooklyn Bridge. Along the way, the book explores major events in world history, such as the Revolutionary War and the famous Wall Street Crash.

As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing. Electricity later turned the city at night into an even more stunning spectacle of brilliantly lit streets and glittering skyscrapers. The advent of artificial lighting revolutionized the urban night, creating not only new forms of life and leisure, but also new ways of perceiving the nocturnal experience. New York Nocturne is the first book to examine how the art of the gaslit and electrified city evolved, and how representations of nighttime New York expanded the boundaries of modern painting, literature, and photography. Exploring the myriad images of Manhattan after dark, New York Nocturne shows how writers and artists took on the city's nocturnal blaze and transformed the scintillating landscape into an icon of modernity. The book traces key metaphors of the nighttime city: a seductive Babylon in the mid-1850s, a misty fairyland colonized by an empire of light in the early twentieth century, and a skyscraper-studded land of desire that became a stage for the voyeurism and violence of the 1940s and 1950s. The epilogue suggests how these themes have continued to shape our vision of nighttime New York ever since. Abundantly illustrated, New York Nocturne includes original readings of works by Whitman, Poe, Whistler, Riis, Stieglitz, Abbott, O'Keeffe, Stella, Hopper, Weegee, Ellison, Jacquette, and many others. Collectively, they tell a fascinating story about the relationship between night, art, and modern urban life.

Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for Rembrandt's glorious portraits. But the deeper history of Amsterdam, what makes it one of the most fascinating places on earth, is bound up in its unique geography-the constant battle of its citizens to keep the sea at bay and the democratic philosophy that this enduring struggle fostered. Amsterdam is the font of liberalism, in both its senses. Tolerance for free thinking and free love make it a place where, in the words of one of its mayors, "craziness is a value." But the city also fostered the deeper meaning of liberalism, one that profoundly influenced America: political and economic freedom. Amsterdam was home not only to religious dissidents and radical thinkers but to the world's first great global corporation. In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam, showing how such disparate elements as herring anatomy, naked Anabaptists parading through the streets, and an intimate gathering in a sixteenth-century wine-tasting room had a profound effect on Dutch-and world-history. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, Shorto provides an ever-surprising, intellectually engaging story of Amsterdam from the building of its first canals in the 1300s, through its brutal struggle for independence, its golden age as a vast empire, to its complex present in which its cherished ideals of liberalism are under siege.

Т. 2, Кн. 10 : Демографія. Етнічні спільноти у Києві. - 105 с.

Викладено основи технічної експлуатації для набуття знань і навичок у галузі проектування і безпосереднього проведення робіт з технічного обслуговування і ремонту житлових, громадських, промислових будівель і споруд із застосуванням сучасних матеріалів, конструкцій, технологій, машин та механізмів. Для студентів закладів освіти І-II рівнів акредитації, які навчаються за спеціальністю “Будівництво та експлуатація будівель і споруд". Може бути корисним робітникам служб технічного нагляду та експлуатації будівель і споруд.

Привлекая старинные географические названия как своеобразную «машину времени», автор увлекательно рассказывает о том, как из века в век Москва росла и расширялась кольцами: от Кремля, Красной площади и Китай-города до Лужников и Раменок, Останкина и Медведкова, Тушина и Крылатского, Тропарева и Солнцева. Читатели книги попадают в интереснейший мир истории Москвы, русской культуры и родного языка, географии и литературы. Издание адресовано широкому кругу читателей, а также учащимся и преподавателям школ, гимназий, лицеев, колледжей и вузов.

Т. 2 : Жизнь города и деятельность горожан. - 345 с.

"Феномен средневекового урбанизма" - первый том (из четырёх задуманных) - посвящён наиболее общим проблемам истории городов как общественного явления. В издании город рассматривается как системообразующий элемент средневековой цивилизации. Книга открывается обширной вводной статьёй и включает очерки о возникновении средневековых городов, особенностях их развития в разных странах Западной Европы, населения, ландшафте, муниципальном устройстве, системе власти и т. д. Для историков и широкого круга читателей.

Энциклопедия посвящена городам, местечкам и замкам многонационального государства - Великого княжества Литовского, находящимся на территории Белоруссии, Литвы, Украины, Польши, России, Латвии. Материал энциклопедии охватывает период от XIII до конца XVIII века. В алфавитной части книги предпринята попытка описать все известные в указанный период относительно крупные населённые пункты - города, местечки, большие сёла, где находились замки, и сами замковые комплексы - как существующие или сохранившиеся в руинах, так и полностью утраченные и известные лишь по летописям и археологическим источникам.