Geschichtsregion Schwarzmeerwelt
The World of the Black See – A Historical Region

Summary/Abstract: Among the various concepts of historical meso-regions, the “Black Sea World” is a fairly new one. Here, the British historian-turned-journalist Neal Ascherson paved the way with his bestseller ‘Black Sea’. Whereas Fernand Braudel has treated the Black Sea region as a mere annex of his “Mediterranean World”, other historians, like the Romanian Gheorghe Ion Brætianu, set out to construct a circumpontic region sui generis. In the 1990s, the Turkish historian Eyüp Özveren re-discovered Brætianu and incorporated his ideas in his own concept of a primarily mercantile and cultural “Black Sea World” in the “long” 19th century. And recently, Charles King published the first comprehensive monograph entitled ‘The Black Sea. A History’.

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