Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917

by Michael F. Hamm

Book Overview

In a fascinating "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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069103253X
• ISBN13: 9780691032535
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.0"