Despite its wide-ranging nature, the work is not comprehensive, nor did the author intend it to be. Ascherson touches on a range of subjects including current politics, the ancient world, and the status of minorities. In addition to his own observations, the author cites liberally from the works of prominent historians, archaeologists, and other writers. Over the course of eleven chapters the author takes the reader from the shores of the Crimean to the shores of Turkey and Georgia, covering some 3,000 years of history in the process. In his 1995 work Black Sea, Neal Ascherson presents a captivating view of the region's diverse cultural history using his personal travels in the area as a backdrop.
Reviewed by Norman Youngblood (Texas Tech University) It is updated with a new foreword by the author.New York: Hill & Wang, 1995. It is the place where 'barbarism' was born. This is a story of Greeks, Scythians, Samatians, Huns, Goths, Turks, Russians, Ukrainians and Poles. 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. 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. It explores the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea.
Print Black Sea: Coasts and Conquests: from Pericles to Putinīlack Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present.
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