The book ‘Port-Cities of the Northern Shore of the Black Sea: Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – Early 20th Centuries’ has been published

The book "Port-Cities of the Northern Shore of the Black Sea: Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – Early 20th Centuries", which began to be prepared in 2013 and was largely completed in 2015, has finally been published.

The chapter authored by I. Lyman and V. Konstantinova has a very telling title: "Kherson, the City of “the Glorious Past”, with the epigraph "Strange and sad is the fate of Kherson!" When, in the summer of 2022, co-editor Oksana Yurkova sent the final draft of the section for approval, it was decided not to change either the title or the epigraph.

V. Konstantinova's book also includes a chapter entitled "Urbanisation and Modernisation of the Northern Black Sea Region in the Mid-19th Beginning of the 20th Century: the Role of the Port Cities."

The book was one of the results of a major international project entitled "The Black Sea and its port cities, 1774-1914. Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy," which was led by the Ionian University and implemented in cooperation with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, the University of Crete, the Hellenic Research Foundation, the University of Thessaly, the Aegean University, universities, research institutes and archives of all Black Sea countries, as well as scholars from Norway, Italy, Israel, Moldova and the United States (a total of about 100 researchers).

The e-version of the monograph is already available on the Greek website.