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Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region
Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in spring 2014 - 160 years after the Crimean War - and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Black Sea region has again become the focus of world history. In this handbook, international scholars from various historical and cultural disciplines provide deep historical insights into the structures of conflict, cooperation, and interrelations between the Balkans, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe in the space referred to as the Black Sea world. The trans-maritime communication and intra-regional circulations, spanning from Antiquity to the present day via, Byzantium, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Crimean Khanate, the Venetian, Safavid, Ottoman, and Romanov empires, two World Wars, and the Cold War, highlight the autonomy of this historical region in the larger transcontinental setting - designated in various times and varying languages as the Pontus Euxinus, the Mare Maggiore, the Kara Deniz, the Chernoe More, or the Black Sea. "This voluminous edition sheds real light upon the history of the Black Sea region from antiquity until the end of the 20th century. Not only does this first-rate book provide a host of excellent historical essays across time, it also devotes considerable attention to important questions regarding how the Black Sea region is conceptualized and theorized. A very useful contribution." (James H. Meyer, Montana State University) "In the wake of several research projects, monographs and journals, this is the first groundbreaking handbook on the cohesive history of the Black Sea as a historical meso-region. It gathers 39 excellent contributions that provide the conceptual apparatus, survey the history of the region from a Greek to Byzantine to Ottoman lake, to conflicting rivalries, to its recent transformation from a quasi-Soviet to a quasi-NATO lake, examine the ideas that underpin the various national, ethnic and religious identities, research the different mobilities through migration, transport,infrastructure, and take stock of its turbulent history through conflicts and war." (Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Mostly the work of scholars from Central Europe and the Black Sea region, this massive volume focuses on the relationship between historical research and memory, in particular the difficulty of certain groups living in the region when confronted with empires and nation states, whose centers may be quite distant from the Black Sea. Attentive readers may thus view the present handbook not merely as a work of reference on history, memory and movement, but also as a testimony to the historical perspectives developed by a significant number of Central European and Black Sea scholars during the first quarter of the twenty-first century." (Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul).
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Conceptualizing the Black Sea Region -- Introduction: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on the Black Sea Region -- Mapping the Black Sea: From the Sea to the Region and beyond -- The Black Sea as a Historical Meso-Region -- Circle(s) and Circulation(s) as Constitutive of the Black Sea (World) -- The Black Sea Region as a Natural Region -- Part II: The Black Sea History from Antiquity until the Twentieth Century -- Antiquity -- The Black Sea in the Middle Ages -- The Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, Poland-Lithuania, Persia, and Others: The Northern Black Sea Region (Fourteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) -- The Ottoman Empire, Safavid Iran, and the Southern Black Sea between 1500 and 1700 -- Forging the Empires in Competition: Russian and Ottoman Transimperial History around the Black Sea until World War I -- The Black Sea Region during World War I and the Interwar Periods: The Forging of a Modern Identity -- Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 -91 -- Part III: Ideas and Identities -- Regional Concepts in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Nation-building and Nationalism in the Black Sea Region (Nineteenth-Twenty-First Centuries) -- Christians and Their Collective Identities around the Black Sea after 1453 -- Muslims and Jews in the Black Sea Region -- Between Imposed Memory and Damnatio Memoriae: Places of Memory in the Black Sea Region -- Ruptured Histories, Contested Memories, Fluid Borders: Monuments in the Northern Black Sea Region from Catherine II to the Russo-Ukrainian War -- Ancient Myths and Legends of the Black Sea: An Integrative Analysis -- Russian Literature on Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea -- Ukrainian Literature on the Black Sea -- Women in the Black Sea Region: Education, Intellectual Exchange, and International Contacts (1850s-1930s) -- Part IV: Mobility and Transfers -- Nomadic Migration Waves in the Pontic Region (Fourth-Thirteenth Centuries) -- Migration around the Black Sea (from the Mid-thirteenth Century to 1700) -- Migration in the Black Sea Region in the Modern Period (Late Eighteenth-Twentieth Centuries) -- Slavery -- Education and Sciences in the Black Sea Region (Eighteenth-Twenty-First Centuries) -- Transport Technologies and Infrastructure in the Premodern Era -- Transport Technologies and Infrastructure: 1800 until World War I -- Oil, Natural Gas, and More: Infrastructures of Energy around and across the Black and Caspian Seas since the Late Nineteenth Century -- Part V: Violence, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution -- Black Sea Pirates and Bandits -- until 1475 -- Pirates and Bandits after 1475 -- Naval History of the Black Sea -- The Crimean War -- Russian Imperial Church Policy in the Black Sea Region (1856 -1914) -- The Persecution and Destruction of Jews in the Black Sea Region -- Deportations in the Context of World War II -- Territorial Conflict and Secessionism in the Post-Soviet Black Sea Region -- Straits, Bridges, and Canals: The Black Sea Region and Russo-Ukrainian Conflict 2014 -- 22 -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Collective Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places
ed. by Kerstin S. Jobst, Stefan Troebst, Stefan Rohdewald, Ninja Bumann.
HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire