The Black Sea, a history

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The Black Sea, a history

Charles King

Oxford University Press, 2004

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The Black Sea

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • ACKNOWLEGMENTS
  • ON NAMES
  • LIST OF PLATES
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • SOURCES FOR INTRODUCTORY QUOTATIONS
  • 1. An Archaeology of Place
  • PEOPLE AND WATER
  • REGION, FRONTIER, NATION
  • BEGINNINGS
  • GEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY
  • 2. Pontus Euxinus, 700BC - AD400
  • THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
  • "FROGS AROUND A POND"
  • "A COMMUNITY OF RACE"
  • HOW A SCYTHIAN SAVED CIVILIZATION
  • THE VOYAGE OF ARGO
  • "MORE BARBAROUS THAN OURSELVES"
  • PONTUS AND ROME
  • DACIA TRAIANA
  • THE EXPEDITION OF FLAVIUS ARRIANUS
  • THE PROPHET OF ABONOTEICHUS
  • 3. Mare Maggiore, 400 - 1460
  • "THE SCYTHIAN NATIONS ARE ONE"
  • SEA-FIRE
  • KHAZARS, RHOS, BULGARS, AND TURKS
  • BUSINESS IN GAZARIA
  • PAX MONGOLICA
  • THE SHIP FROM CAFFA
  • EMPIRE OF THE COMNENI
  • TURCHIA
  • AN AMBASSADOR FROM THE EAST
  • 4. Kara Deniz, 1460 - 700
  • "THE SOURCE OF ALL THE SEAS"
  • "TO CONSTANTINOPLE - TO BE SOLD!"
  • DOMN, KHAN, AND DEREBEY
  • SAILORS' GRAFFITI
  • A NAVY OF SEAGULLS
  • 5. Chernoe More, 1700 - 860
  • SEA AND STEPPE
  • A FLOTILLA ON AZOV
  • CLEOPATRA PROCESSES SOUTH
  • THE FLIGHT OF THE KALMOUCKS
  • A SEASON IN KHERSON
  • REAR ADMIRAL DZHONS
  • NEW RUSSIA
  • FEVER, AGUE, AND LAZARETTO
  • A CONSUL IN TRABZON
  • CRIMEA
  • 6. Black Sea, 1860 - 1990
  • EMPIRES, STATES, AND TREATIES
  • STEAM, WHEAT, RAIL, AND OIL
  • "AN IGNOBLE ARMY OF SCRIBBLING VISITORS"
  • TROUBLE ON THE KOSTENCE LINE
  • THE UNPEOPLING
  • "THE DIVISION OF THE WATERS"
  • KNOWING THE SEA
  • THE PROMETHEANS
  • DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE
  • 7. Facing the War

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