1. These divergent processes are not usually studied together. Part of the vast literature on Odessa focuses on the city’s harmonious diversity, another is devoted to its revolutionary history and yet another to the pogroms that happened there. See P. Herlihy (1986) Odessa: A History (1794–1914) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) for an overall study;and discussion in Humphrey (2010) ‘Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City’, Ab Imperio 4, 1–50.
2. E. Rothschild (2005) ‘Language and Empire, c. 1800’, Historical Research 78(200), 208–229.
3. A. Herscher, (2010) Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), pp. 5–7.
4. S. Eisenstein (1987) Nonindifferent Nature. Translated by Herbert Marshall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 159–165;see also discussion in A. Vidler (2001) Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press).
5. Cited in J. Lear (2010) ‘Sharing Secrets’, London Review of Books (11 March) a review of C. Bollas (2008) The Evocative Object World (London: Routledge).