Enlightened Metropolis
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Enlightened Metropolis
Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855
Martin, Alexander M. (Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, USA)
Oxford University Press
10/2014
360
Mole
Inglês
9780198722885
15 a 20 dias
Through systematic comparisons with cities in Western Europe, Alexander Martin situates Moscow in the context of the emergence of urban bourgeois civilization in the West, and helps the reader understand both how Moscow became a modern city and why this successful modernization paradoxically helped delegitimize the tsarist regime.
Introduction ; 1. The Enlightened Metropolis and the Imperial Social Project ; 2. Space and Time in the Enlightened Metropolis ; 3. Envisioning the Enlightened Metropolis: Images of Moscow under Catherine II ; 4. Barbarism, Civility, Luxury: Writing about Moscow in the 1790s-1820s ; 5. Government, Aristocracy, and the Middling Sort ; 6. The 1812 War ; 7. Common Folk in Nicholaevan Moscow ; 8. Complacency and Anxiety: Representations of Moscow under Nicholas I ; Conclusion
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Through systematic comparisons with cities in Western Europe, Alexander Martin situates Moscow in the context of the emergence of urban bourgeois civilization in the West, and helps the reader understand both how Moscow became a modern city and why this successful modernization paradoxically helped delegitimize the tsarist regime.
Introduction ; 1. The Enlightened Metropolis and the Imperial Social Project ; 2. Space and Time in the Enlightened Metropolis ; 3. Envisioning the Enlightened Metropolis: Images of Moscow under Catherine II ; 4. Barbarism, Civility, Luxury: Writing about Moscow in the 1790s-1820s ; 5. Government, Aristocracy, and the Middling Sort ; 6. The 1812 War ; 7. Common Folk in Nicholaevan Moscow ; 8. Complacency and Anxiety: Representations of Moscow under Nicholas I ; Conclusion
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