TY - GEN T1 - Kiev : a portrait, 1800-1917 A1 - Hamm, Michael F. LA - English PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 1993 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn875297055 AB - 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 centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also ex. OP - 304 CN - DK508.935 .H36 1993eb SN - 9781400851515 SN - 1400851513 SN - 9780691025858 SN - 0691025851 SN - 069103253X SN - 9780691032535 KW - Kyïv (Ukraine) : History. KW - Kiev (Ukraine) : Histoire. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Eastern. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Former Soviet Republics. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union. KW - Ukraine : Kyïv KW - Kiew KW - Geschichte 1800-1917. KW - Ukraine : History, 1793-1917 KW - History ER -