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not a boring or badly written paragraph in it. urgent argument: about culture, national identity, the misuse of history, archaeology, the co-existence of different peoples, the responsibility of intellectuals. “A beautifully written meditation on nationality, colonialism, nomadism and the settled life, which goes back to the beginning of the human world and traces the fortunes of the Aegean and Mediterranean traders who squeezed up through the Bosporus to do business with the steppe societies of the huge Black Sea hinterland.” - Karl Miller, San Francisco Review of Books “To say it at once: this is a superb book, beautifully written, evocative, learned, and deeply subtle.” - Timothy Garton Ash, The Times Literary Supplement

It explores the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea. “History and time and place flow together superb, encompassing story of the Black Sea region.” - Mary Lee Settle, Los Angeles Times Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores, from the earliest times to the present. Ascherson's portrait of a place whose chief characteristic is the durability of its many ethnic identities comes at the right moment.” - Richard Bernstein, The New York Times With ethnic conflicts much in the headlines, Mr. rich both in historical data and in interpretation. As he shows with skill and persuasiveness, Black Sea patterns in the Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey, and Greece have linked the peoples of. “A searching examination of the lands that ring the Black Sea and that were the scenes of some of the most ancient multicultural experiences of human history. 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.