The Black Sea
| Titel: | The Black Sea : a history / Charles King |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2004 |
| Umfang: | 276 S. : Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0199241619 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- On Names
- p. xi
- List of Plates
- p. xiv
- List of Maps
- p. xvi
- 1.
- An Archaeology of Place
- p. 3
- People and Water
- p. 3
- Region, Frontier, Nation
- p. 6
- Beginnings
- p. 12
- Geography and Ecology
- p. 15
- 2.
- Pontus Euxinus, 700BC-AD500
- p. 25
- The Edge of the World
- p. 26
- "Frogs Around a Pond"
- p. 29
- "A Community of Race"
- p. 33
- How a Scythian Saved Civilization
- p. 37
- The Voyage of Argo
- p. 40
- "More Barbarous Than Ourselves"
- p. 42
- Pontus and Rome
- p. 45
- Dacia Traiana
- p. 50
- The Expedition of Flavius Arrianus
- p. 52
- The Prophet of Abonoteichus
- p. 55
- 3.
- Mare Maggiore, 500-1500
- p. 65
- "The Scythian Nations are One"
- p. 67
- Sea-Fire
- p. 71
- Khazars, Rhos, Bulgars, and Turks
- p. 73
- Business in Gazaria
- p. 81
- Pax Mongolica
- p. 87
- The Ship from Caffa
- p. 91
- Empire of the Comneni
- p. 93
- Turchia
- p. 98
- An Ambassador from the East
- p. 101
- 4.
- Kara Deniz, 1500-1700
- p. 111
- "The Source of All the Seas"
- p. 113
- "To Constantinople--to be Sold!"
- p. 116
- Domn, Khan, and Derebey
- p. 119
- Sailors' Graffiti
- p. 125
- A Navy of Seagulls
- p. 129
- 5.
- Chernoe More, 1700-1860
- p. 139
- Sea and Steppe
- p. 141
- A Flotilla on Azov
- p. 143
- Cleopatra Processes South
- p. 147
- The Flight of the Kalmoucks
- p. 150
- A Season in Kherson
- p. 154
- Rear Admiral Dzhons
- p. 157
- New Russia
- p. 161
- Fever, Ague, and Lazaretto
- p. 168
- A Consul in Trabzon
- p. 172
- Crimea
- p. 177
- 6.
- Black Sea, 1860-1990
- p. 189
- Empires, States, and Treaties
- p. 192
- Steam, Wheat, Rail, and Oil
- p. 195
- "An Ignoble Army of Scribbling Visitors"
- p. 200
- Trouble on the Kostence Line
- p. 204
- The Unpeopling
- p. 207
- "The Division of the Waters"
- p. 215
- Knowing the Sea
- p. 219
- The Prometheans
- p. 224
- Development and Decline
- p. 227
- 7.
- Facing the Water
- p. 239
- Sources for Introductory Quotations
- p. 248
- Bibliography and Further Reading
- p. 251
- Index
- p. 263
