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The area from the Balkans to the Caucasus is often seen as a zone of timeless conflict, a frontier region at the meeting place of mutually antagonistic civilizations. But in this pathbreaking work, Charles King investigates the myriad of connections that have made the Black Sea more of a bridge than a boundary, linking religious communities, linguistic groups, empires, and later, nations and states.For some parts of the world, the idea of waterways as defining elements in human history is uncontroversial. Mention the Mediterranean or the South Pacific, and images of mutual influence come to mind. Those images come less readily for the Black Sea-a region that has experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalries over the last two decades. But in the recent past, the idea of the Black Sea as a distinct unit was self-evident. From its formation some seven or eight millennia ago to the political revolutions and environmental crisis of the late twentieth century, the sea has been a zone of interaction - sometimes cordial, sometimes conflictual - among the peoples and states around its shores. To the ancient Greeks, the sea lay literally at the edge of the known world. In time, the growth of Greek trading colonies linked all the coasts into a web of economic relationships. In the Middle Ages, the sea was tied to the great commercial cities of Venice and Genoa. Later, the Ottomans used the region's resources to build their own empire. In the late eighteenth century, the sea was opened to foreign commerce, and the seacoasts were part of a genuinely global system of trade. After the collapse of the Russian and Ottoman empires, the coastline was carved up among a number of newly formed nation-states, with each asserting a right to a piece of the coast and a section of the coastal waters. Today, efforts to resurrect the idea of the Black Sea as a unified region are once again on the international agenda. Based on extensive research in multiple languages, this book is an indispensable guide to the history, cultures, and politics of this fascinating sea and its future at the heart of Europe and Eurasia.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199241619
ISBN-13
9780199241613
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5961966
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Sea : a History
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, General, World / European
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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"Like its subject, this book is a hybrid, a mostly engaging historical narrative drawn from an array of secondary sources.... a vivid account of the Black Sea's sometimes fascinating structural characteristics.... Recommended"--Choice"A masterful account of the ever-changing trade between the peoples and the powers of this crucial waterway."--Orlando Figes, A solid work by an academic historian, writing for the general educated public. He is particularly good on little known or forgotten episodes - the part played by Westerners in the development of the area. King is well placed to see through the myths of nationalists ... he has a good eye also for the victims of history. Kings work has all the virtues of good American scholarship ... vast array of sources, ... a transatlantic detachment, and the recent and very welcome fashion for elegant prose., Well footnoted and fluently written...a useful and accessible work - with the Sea itself quite properly at the centre of attention., '...essential reading for all who are dealing with the Black Sea historyand archaeology.'International Journal of Maritime History, "Like its subject, this book is a hybrid, a mostly engaging historical narrative drawn from an array of secondary sources.... a vivid account of the Black Sea's sometimes fascinating structural characteristics.... Recommended"--Choice "A masterful account of the ever-changing trade between the peoples and the powers of this crucial waterway."--Orlando Figes, This is an essential book for anyone who feels they ought to know about what used to be called "the eastern question" and worries, secretly, that it is too late to start finding out., "Like its subject, this book is a hybrid, a mostly engaging historical narrative drawn from an array of secondary sources.... a vivid account of the Black Sea's sometimes fascinating structural characteristics.... Recommended"-- Choice "A masterful account of the ever-changing trade between the peoples and the powers of this crucial waterway."-- Orlando Figes, The collapse of the Soviet Union restored two great geostrategic arenas long buried in now-defunct empires or pushed to the margin by Cold War alignments. The first is Inner Asia, an immense hinterland stretching from the Chinese borderlands, across the Siberian south, to the Hindu Kush. The second is the Black Sea, a junction where the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East meet. (Say no more.) To appreciate what this re-embodiment means one needs a special vantage point. King traces the Black Sea's many political incarnations from the Greeks and Scythians to the Romans, the Byzantine Christians, the Ottomans, the Russians, and the tumult of the twentieth century. Even when fractured and populated with weak and troubled states (as now), the region, King argues in this mind-broadening book, coheres-and deserves to be thought about and approached accordingly., '...essential reading for all who are dealing with the Black Sea history and archaeology.'International Journal of Maritime History, In this timely book Charles King provides a stretchy timeline for the murky pool (once a lake, now a tideless sea) which has always sat on the edge of everything: Europe, Asia, civilisation, barbarism, us and other.
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
2004-300512
Dewey Decimal
909.096389
Lc Classification Number
Djk66
Table of Content
AcknowlegmentsOn NamesList of PlatesList of MapsSources for Introductory Quotations1. An Archaeology of PlacePeople and WaterRegion, Frontier, NationBeginningsGeography and Ecology2. Pontus Euxinus, 700BC - AD400The Edge of the World"Frogs Around a Pond""A Community of Race"How a Scythian Saved CivilizationThe Voyage of Argo"More Barbarous Than Ourselves"Pontus and RomeDacia TraianaThe Expedition of Flavius ArrianusThe Prophet of Abonoteichus3. Mare Maggiore, 400 - 1460"The Scythian Nations Are One"Sea-FireKhazars, Rhos, Bulgars, and TurksBusiness in GazariaPax MongolicaThe Ship from CaffaEmpire of the ComneniTurchiaAn Ambassador from the East4. Kara Deniz, 1460 - 700"The Source of All the Seas""To Constantinople - to be sold!"Domn, Khan, and DerebeySailors' GraffitiA Navy of Seagulls5. Chernoe More, 1700 - 860Sea and SteppeA Flotilla on AzovCleopatra Processes SouthThe Flight of the KalmoucksA Season in KhersonRear Admiral DzhonsNew RussiaFever, Ague, and LazarettoA Consul in TrabzonCrimea6. Black Sea, 1860 - 1990Empires, States, and TreatiesSteam, Wheat, Rail, and Oil"An Ignoble Army of Scribbling Visitors"Trouble on the Kostence LineThe Unpeopling"The Division of the Waters"Knowing the SeaThe PrometheansDevelopment and Decline7. Facing the War
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