Black Sea - Neal Ascherson - Hardcover - 1st American ed

Winner of theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for History In 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.Ascherson, Neal is the author of 'Black Sea - Neal Ascherson - Hardcover - 1st American ed' with ISBN 9780809030439 and ISBN 0809030438.