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UNINA9911091290503321 |
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Autore |
Herlihy Patricia |
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Titolo |
Odessa Recollected : The Port and the People / / Patricia Herlihy |
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Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Odesa (Ukraine)-History |
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern |
Odesa (Ukraine) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Culture -- CHAPTER 1. The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth -- CHAPTER 2. Odessa Memories -- CHAPTER 3. How Ukrainian Is Odesa? From Odessa to Odesa -- CHAPTER 4. Jewish Writers of Odessa 1800-1940 -- Part Two. Community -- CHAPTER 5. Death in Odessa: A Study of Population Movements in a Nineteenth-Century City -- CHAPTER 6. The Ethnic Composition of the City of Odessa in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER 7. Greek Merchants in Odessa in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER 8. The Greek Community in Odessa, 1861-1917 -- Part Three. Commerce -- CHAPTER 9. Odessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New Russia -- CHAPTER 10. Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia -- CHAPTER 11. Port Jews of Odessa and Trieste- A Tale of Two Cities -- CHAPTER 12. Russian Wheat and the Port of Livorno 1794-1865 -- CHAPTER 13. South Ukraine as an Economic Region in the Nineteenth Century -- Index |
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Odessa, a Black Sea port founded by Catherine the Great in 1794, shortly after the territory was wrested from the Ottoman Empire, became a boomtown on the southern fringe of the Russian Empire. Catherine and the early administrators of the city, such as the Duke de Richelieu, promoted settlement by Europeans in addition to the Greek, |
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Italians, and Jews who came on their own initiative to take advantage of economic opportunities in the robust grain trade with Europe. More ethnically diverse by far than St. Petersburg, Odessa became a remarkable independent-minded, large cosmopolitan city, attracting and producing noted writers, artists, musicians and scholars. Imperial Russian tsars and Soviet leaders maintained an ambivalent attitude towards the maverick city, appreciating the fame and fortune it generated, but also leery of the activities of secret foreign national societies, pogromists, revolutionaries and simply the perceived lack of patriotism in the singular city so far away from the heart of Russia. With the withering of the lucrative grain trade by the time of the Soviet Union, Odessa became a neglected city, drained of its foreign flavor. With the independence of Ukraine in 1991, there were hopes raised that the architectural beauty and economic prospects of the city would be revived. Given the current hostilities in Eastern Ukraine with the potential of the Odessa area becoming a possible land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, the fate of the former Pearl of the Black Sea hangs in suspension. The present book brings together-indeed, re-collects-some of the most valuable and thought-provoking research on Odessa and its culture, community, and economy published by Patricia Herlihy over several decades of her work. Scholars of Ukraine, Russia, and the former Soviet Union will find in this book a helpful resource for their research and teaching. |
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UNINA9911137495303321 |
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Bioevaluation of world transport networks / / edited by Andrew Adamatzky |
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Singapore, : World Scientific, 2012 |
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1-299-28105-2 |
981-4407-04-6 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Transportation - Computer simulation |
Transportation - Mathematical models |
Roads - History |
Plasmodium |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction Andrew Adamatzky; 1.1 Motorways; 1.2 Imitating road development; 1.3 Slime mould; 1.4 Physarum computing; 1.5 What the book is about; 2. Methods: how we conducted experiments and analysed their results Andrew Adamatzky; 2.1 Obtaining P. polycephalum; 2.2 Cultivation; 2.3 Experiments; 2.4 Physarum and motorway graphs; 2.5 Proximity graphs; 3. Trans-African highways Andrew Adamatzky and Anne Kayem; 3.1 Propagation from Cairo: three scenarios; 3.2 Protoplasmic networks of trans-African highways |
3.3 Lubumbashi and Lusaka to Harare and Beira is the strongest link 3.4 Summary; 4. Tracing historical development of Australian highways Andrew Adamatzky and Mikhail Prokopenko; 4.1 Slime mould traces gold rush networking; 4.2 Physarum reconstructs the Gabriel graph; 4.3 Australian highways are a subnetwork of the Physarum network; 4.4 Famine and large-scale contamination; 4.5 Summary; 5. Belgian transport networks: redundancy and dissolution Andrew Adamatzky, Bernard De Baets and Wesley Van Dessel; 5.1 Bioessential motorways grow from Brussels |
5.2 Physarum almost perfectly approximates Belgian motorways 5.3 |
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Minimum spanning tree is not a subgraph of motorway graph; 5.4 Dissolution: snelwegen or autoroutes?; 5.5 Doel nuclear power plant and other sources of contamination; 5.6 Summary; 6. Brazilian highways from slime mould's point of view Andrew Adamatzky and Pedro P. B. de Oliveira; 6.1 Slime mould makes more highways; 6.2 Comparing with proximity graph; 6.3 Physarum and Angra nuclear power plant; 6.4 Summary; 7. Trans-Canada slimeways: from coast to coast to coast Andrew Adamatzky and Selim G. Akl; 7.1 Foraging from Toronto |
7.2 Physarum almost approximates Canadian highways 7.3 On optimality of Canadian highways; 7.4 Contamination from Bruce nuclear power station; 7.5 Summary; 8. Slime mould imitates highways in China Andrew Adamatzky, Xin-She Yang and Yu-Xin Zhao; 8.1 From Beijing to Urumqi; 8.2 Physarum graph belongs to motorway graph; 8.3 Slime and man-made networks vs proximity graphs; 8.4 Summary; 9. Schlauschleimer auf Autobahnen: the case of Germany Andrew Adamatzky and Theresa Schubert; 9.1 Germany colonised; 9.2 More connections in the west; 9.3 Reichsautobahn rediscovered; 9.4 Slimy proximity graphs |
9.5 Mass migration due to contamination 9.6 Summary; 10. Vie Physarale: Roman roads with slime mould Emanuele Strano, Andrew Adamatzky and Jeff Jones; 10.1 From Piacentia to Bononia and from Genua to Florenzia are missing; 10.2 Simulation: linking Bononia to Ariminum and Roma; 10.3 Summary; 11. Malaysian expressways: is there a logic behind them? Andrew Adamatzky, Zuwairie Ibrahim, Amar Faiz Zainal Abidin, Badaruddin Muhammad; 11.1 The coastal routes; 11.2 Strong chains and isolated cities; 11.3 Trees rooted in Rawan and Kuala Lumpur are minimal; 11.4 Contamination in Kuantan; 11.5 Summary |
12. Physarum narcotraficum: Mexican highways and slime mould Andrew Adamatzky, Genaro J. Martinez, Sergio V. Chapa- Vergara, Rene Asomoza-Palacio and Christopher R. Stephens |
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Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a monstrous single cell well known for its task-solving abilities - solves computational geometry and logical problems, navigates robots and generates music.The slime mould could also build motorways, highways and expressways. It is used to analyse transport networks of Africa, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, UK and USA. The largest cities are represented by oat flakes and the slime mould is inoculated in a capital. When all oat flakes are covered by the slime mould, the structure of the |
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