Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents XI
4. Part I: Conceptualizing the Black Sea Region
5. Introduction: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on the Black Sea Region 1
6. Mapping the Black Sea: From the Sea to the Region and beyond 15
7. The Black Sea as a Historical Meso-Region 31
8. Circle(s) and Circulation(s) as Constitutive of the Black Sea (World) 45
9. The Black Sea Region as a Natural Region 59
10. Part II: The Black Sea History from Antiquity until the Twentieth Century
11. Antiquity 77
12. The Black Sea in the Middle Ages 93
13. The Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, Poland-Lithuania, Persia, and Others: The Northern Black Sea Region (Fourteenth−Eighteenth Centuries) 107
14. The Ottoman Empire, Safavid Iran, and the Southern Black Sea between 1500 and 1700 125
15. Forging the Empires in Competition: Russian and Ottoman Transimperial History around the Black Sea until World War I 137
16. The Black Sea Region during World War I and the Interwar Periods: The Forging of a Modern Identity 151
17. Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 –91 165
18. Part III: Ideas and Identities
19. Regional Concepts in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 183
20. Nation-building and Nationalism in the Black Sea Region (Nineteenth–Twenty-First Centuries) 197
21. Christians and Their Collective Identities around the Black Sea after 1453 221
22. Muslims and Jews in the Black Sea Region 239
23. Between Imposed Memory and Damnatio Memoriae: Places of Memory in the Black Sea Region 277
24. Ruptured Histories, Contested Memories, Fluid Borders: Monuments in the Northern Black Sea Region from Catherine II to the Russo-Ukrainian War 315
25. Ancient Myths and Legends of the Black Sea: An Integrative Analysis 363
26. Russian Literature on Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea 391
27. Ukrainian Literature on the Black Sea 405
28. Women in the Black Sea Region: Education, Intellectual Exchange, and International Contacts (1850s–1930s) 423
29. Part IV: Mobility and Transfers
30. Nomadic Migration Waves in the Pontic Region (Fourth–Thirteenth Centuries) 445
31. Migration around the Black Sea (from the Mid-thirteenth Century to 1700) 463
32. Migration in the Black Sea Region in the Modern Period (Late Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries) 483
33. Slavery 497
34. Education and Sciences in the Black Sea Region (Eighteenth–Twenty-First Centuries) 515
35. Transport Technologies and Infrastructure in the Premodern Era 529
36. Transport Technologies and Infrastructure: 1800 until World War I 539
37. Oil, Natural Gas, and More: Infrastructures of Energy around and across the Black and Caspian Seas since the Late Nineteenth Century 559
38. Part V: Violence, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution
39. Black Sea Pirates and Bandits—until 1475 579
40. Pirates and Bandits after 1475 599
41. Naval History of the Black Sea 621
42. The Crimean War 651
43. Russian Imperial Church Policy in the Black Sea Region (1856 –1914) 663
44. The Persecution and Destruction of Jews in the Black Sea Region 677
45. Deportations in the Context of World War II 691
46. Territorial Conflict and Secessionism in the Post-Soviet Black Sea Region 707
47. Straits, Bridges, and Canals: The Black Sea Region and Russo-Ukrainian Conflict 2014 – 22 721
48. List of Illustrations 739
49. List of Contributors 741
50. Collective Bibliography 745
51. Index of Persons 751
52. Index of Places 761