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Black Sea : Coasts and Conquests: From Pericles to Putin - 9781784700911

Black Sea : Coasts and Conquests: From Pericles to Putin

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Author: Ascherson, Neal

Black Sea

Published on 4 June 2015 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 304 pages
198 x 129 x 20 | 246g

Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea.

Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus and Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile on what is now the coast of Romania; the decline and fall of Byzantium; the mysterious Christian Goths; the Tatar Khanates; the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, and the centuries of war between Ottoman and Russian Empires around the Black Sea. He examines the terrors of Stalinism and its fascist enemy, both striving for mastery of these endlessly colourful and complex shores, and investigates the turbulent history of modern Ukraine.

WITH A FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR 'A brilliant biography of place' Guardian'Every page is freighted with rich and fascinating detail' Independent