Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region

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
Front Matter 2
Collective Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Places