num_pages: 320
description: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryIn this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea, Neal Ascherson explores the disputed meaning of community, nationhood, history, and culture in a region famous for its dramatic conflicts. What makes the Back Sea cultures distinctive, Ascherson agrues, is the way their comonent parts came together over the millennia to shape unique communities, languages, religions, and trade. As he shows with skill and persuasiveness, Black Sea patterns in the Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey, and Greece have linked the peoples of Europe and Asia together for centuries.
language: English
title: Black Sea
titlecomplete: Black Sea
characters: Natella Akaba, Peter the Great, Nikita Khrushchev, Catherine the Great, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Augustus, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexander Pushkin, Homer (Greek Poet), Herodotus, Alexander I of Russia, Adam Mickiewicz, Anton Denikin, Konstantin Paustovsky, Joseph Stalin, François Hartog, Jan Witt, Anthony Bryer, Boris Yeltsin, Anton Chekhov
genres: History, European History, Ukraine, World History, Russia, Romania, Nonfiction, Travel, Asia, Greece
ratings_count: 719
places: Black Sea
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Scottish Book of the Year
publisher: Hill and Wang