The Balkans and Caucasus : parallel processes on the opposite sides of the Black Sea / edited by Ivan Biliarsky, Ovidiu Cristea and Anca Oroveanu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bili︠a︡rski, Ivan, 1959-

Cristea, Ovidiu.

Oroveanu, Anca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balkan Peninsula--History.

Balkan Peninsula.

Black Sea Coast--History.

Black Sea Coast.

Caucasus--History.

Caucasus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and histori

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; GREAT POWERS, SMALL POWERS; THE QUEST FOR MARITIME SUPREMACY IN THE BLACK SEA DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AGES; THE LOWER DANUBE, CIRCASSIA AND THE COMMERCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE BRITISH-RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC RIVALRY IN THE BLACK SEA BASIN (1836-37); UNDERSTANDING INTERVENTION; TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY'S HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES TOWARDS THE NORTHERN BALKANS AND TRANSCAUCASUS AREAS; REGIONAL COOPERATION ACCORDING TO INTERWAR ROMANIAN NATIONALISTS; THE BALKANS AND CAUCASUS; PART II

THE INTERCHANGE BETWEEN RELIGIOUS HETERODOXIES IN THE BALKANS AND CAUCASUSAN EXAMPLE OF THE IDEA OF DAVIDIC KINGSHIP ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BLACK SEA; THE ORTHODOX-CHALCEDONIAN ARMENIANS FROM THE CAUCASUS TO THE BALKANS (AN OUTLINE OF THEIR HISTORY AND IDENTITY); TWICE A MINORITY; PART III; ETHNO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE BALKANS AND THE CAUCASUSAS AN OBJECTIVE FOR COMPARATIVE RESEARCH; THE SHAPING OF GEORGIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY; A NOTE ON SCRIPT SHIFT AND SPLITTING OF NATIONS IN THE CAUCASUS, IN THE BALKANS, AND ELSEWHERE; RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY AND NATION BUILDING IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA

THE BALKANS AND THE CAUCASUSINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REACTIONS TO THE INDEPENDENCE PROCLAMATIONS OF KOSOVO, SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA; ENLARGEMENT IN THE WESTERN BALKANS; PART IV; LAND UND MEER; BLACK SEA IDENTITY AND THE AUTOCHTHON LOGIC OF THALASSOPHOBIA; TRANSITIONS AND TRADITIONS ON STAGE; MUSICS OF THE NEW TIMES; CONTRIBUTORS

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ISBN:

1-280-48627-9

9786613581259

1-4438-3705-9

OCLC:

829713937