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A Working List of Literature on the Black Sea Region

Bibliography

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_____. The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontos. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980.

Bryer, Anthony and David Winfield. The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of the Pontos. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985.

Burstein, Stanley M. “Go-Betweens and the Greek Cities of the Black Sea.” World History Connected 10.3 (2013): http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/10.3/burstein.html.

Chambers, Ian. Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

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Chen, Cecilia, Janine McLeod and Astrid Neimanis, eds. Thinking with Water. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2013.

Clowes, Edith W. Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.

Coates, Peter A. A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture, and Ecology. London: Reaktion, 2013.

Cronon, William. “A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative.” Journal of American History 78 (1992): 1347–1376.  

Eames, Andrew. Blue River, Black Sea: A Journey along the Danube into the Heart of the New Europe. London: Black Swan, 2010.

Etkind, Alexander. “Mapping Memory Events in the East European Space.” East European Memory Studies 1 (2010): 4-5.

Feaux de la Croix, Jeanne. “Moving Metaphors We Live By: Water and Flow in the Social Sciences and around Hydroelectric Dams in Kyrgyzstan.” Central Asian Review 30 (2011): 487–502.

Finamore, Daniel, ed. Maritime History as World History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.

Fisher, Alan W. Between Russians, Ottomans and Turks: Crimea and Crimean Tatars. Istanbul: Isis Press, 1998.

Frary, Lucien J. and Mara Kozelsky, eds. Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Gauß, Karl-Markus. “The Teachings of the Danube.” In Donau, edited by Inge Morath, 15-23. Vienna: Müller Verlag, 1995.

Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh. The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

Giblett, Rod. Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1996.

Gille, Zsuzsa. “Is There a Global Postsocialist Condition?” Global Society 24 (2010): 9–30.

Ginsburg, Faye D., Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin, eds. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Green, Sarah. Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Heikell, Rod. The Danube: A River Guide. St. Ives, UK: Imray, Laurie, Norie, and Wilson, 1991.

Helmreich, Stefan. “Nature/Culture/Seawater.” American Anthropologist 113 (2011): 132–144.

Herlihy, Patricia. Odessa: A History, 1794-1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Herzfeld, Michael, “Practical Mediterraneanism: Excuses for Everything, from Epistemology to Eating.” In Rethinking the Mediterranean, edited by W. V. Harris, 45-63. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Hirschon, Renée, ed. Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003.

Horden, Peregrine, “The Mediterranean and the New Thalassology.” American Historical Review 111 (2006): 722-40.

Horden, Peregrine and Nicholas Purcell. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000.

Horden, Peregrine and Sharon Kinoshita, eds. A Companion to Mediterranean History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Horvat, Srećko and Slavoj Žižek. What Does Europe Want? The Union and Its Discontents. London: Istrosbooks, 2013.

Inalcik, Halil and Donald Quataert, eds. An Economic and Social History of The Ottoman Empire (1300–1914). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Ivan, Ruxandra, ed. New Regionalism or No Regionalism? Emerging Regionalism in the Black Sea Area. Burlington: Ashgate, 2012.

Josephson, Paul R. “‘Projects of the Century’ in Soviet History: Large-Scale Technologies from Lenin to Gorbachev.” Technology and Culture 36 (1995): 519–559.

King, Charles. The Black Sea: A History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

–––––. The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

_____. “The Wider Black Sea Region in the Twenty-First Century.” In The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives, edited by Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott, 1-19. Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2008.

_____. Odessa: Genius and Death in the City of Dreams. New York & London: Norton, 2011.

–––––. Midnight at the Pera Hotel: The Birth of Modern Istanbul. New York & London: Norton, 2014.

King, Jeremy. “The Nationalization of East Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond.” In Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present, edited by Maria Bucur-Deckard and Nancy M. Wingfield, 112-152. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2001.

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Koromila, Marianna, ed. The Greeks and The Black Sea: From the Bronze Age to The Early 20th Century. Athens: Panorama Cultural Society, 2002.

Kozelsky, Mara. “Casualties of Conflict: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War.” Slavic Review 67 (2008): 866-891.

_____. Christianizing Crimea: Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.

_____. “A Borderland Mission: The Russian Orthodox Church in the Black Sea Region.” Russian History 40 (2013): 111-132.

Krause, Franz. “What to Do about Flow? A Conversation about a Contested Concept.” Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 39 (2014): 89–91.

Ladas, Stephen Pericles. The Exchange of Minorities: Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. New York: Macmillan, 1932.

Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. “Beyond the Water-Land Binary in Geography: Water/lands of Bengal Re-visioning Hybridity.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geography 13 (2014): 505–529.

Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991 (1974).

Lewis, Martin W. and Kären E. Wigen. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Luhmann, Niklas. Social Systems. Translated by John Bednarz, Jr., with Dirk Becker. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Magocsi, Paul Robert. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Magris, Claudio. Danube. Translated by Patrick Creagh. London: Harvill, 2001.

Manoledakes, Manoles, ed. Exploring the Hospitable Sea: Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Black Sea. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013.

Matvejević, Predrag. Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Mazower, Mark. The Balkans: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

_____. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950. New York: Knopf, 2005.

McCarthy, Justin. Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1995.

McLean, Stuart. “Black Goo: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe’s Muddy Margins.” Cultural Anthropology 26 (2011): 589–619.

Miller, Matthew D. “Bottled Messages for Europe’s Future? The Danube in Contemporary Transnational Cinema.” In Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900–2000, edited by Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, forthcoming.

Miller, Peter, ed. The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Miller, William. Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era 1204-1461. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1969.

Morath, Inge, ed. Donau. Vienna: Müller Verlag, 1995.

Morris, Ian. “Mediterraneanization.” Mediterranean Historical Review 18 (2003): 30-55.

Nadkarni, Maya. “Remains of Socialism: Memory and Anxieties of the National in Postsocialist Hungary.” PhD diss., Columbia University, 2009.

Okey, Robin. “Central Europe/Eastern Europe: Behind the Definitions.” Past & Present 137 (1992): 102–133.

O’Doherty, Marianne, ed. Travels and Mobilities in the Middle Ages from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2015.

Ostapchuk, Victor. “The Human Landscape of the Ottoman Black Sea in the Face of the Cossack Naval Raids." Oriente moderno  20 (2001): 23-95.

Paces, Cynthia. Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2009.

Pavličić, Pavao. Dunav. Zagreb: Mozaik knjiga, 2008.

Payne, Alina. “From Riverbed to Seashore: Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period,” Harvard University—The Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Project, 2013. http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1367317.files/Connecting%20Art%20Histories%20Project%20December%2013_%202013.pdf

Peters, Edward. “Quid nobis cum pelago? The New Thalassology and the Economic History of Europe.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 (2003): 49-61.

Pilz, Barbara, Steven Grynwasser, Akos Doma, Anton Holzer and Elisabeth Limbeck-Lilienau. Blue: Inventing the River Danube. Salzburg: Fotohof, 2005.

Prigarin, Alexsandr. Russkie staroobradtsy na Dunae. Odessa: Smile-Archeodoksia, 2010.

Ransborg, K. “Barbarians, Classical Antiquity and the Rise of Western Europe.” Past & Present 137 (1992): 8-24.

Rebić, Goran, director. Donau, Dunaj, Duna, Dunav, Dunărea/The Danube. DVD. Vienna: Filmarchiv Austria, 2012.

Richardson, Tanya. Kaleidoscopic Odessa: History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

———. “Objecting (to) Infrastructure: Ecopolitics at the Ukrainian Ends of the Danube.” Science as Culture 24 (2015): 1–21.

———. “On the Limits of Liberalism in Participatory Environmental Governance: Conflict and Conservation in Ukraine’s Danube Delta.” Development and Change 24 (2015): 415–441.

Robarts, Andrew. Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region: Ottoman-Russian Relations in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.

Rockefeller, Stuart Alexander. “Flow.” Current Anthropology 52 (2011): 557–578.

Roth, Klaus. “Rivers as Bridges—Rivers as Boundaries: Some Reflections on Intercultural Exchange on the Danube.” Ethnologia Balkanica 1 (1997): 20–28.

Rusev, Ivan. Ozero Sasyka v plenu ekologicheskogo bezumiia. Kiev: Ekho Vostoka, 1996.

Sasse, Gwendolyn. The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Schillmeier, Michael and Wiebke Pohler. “The Danube and Ways of Imagining Europe.” Sociological Review 58 (2011): 23–43.

Sidney, George, director. The Red Danube. DVD. Burbank, CA: Warner Archive. 2012.

Siliantieva-Skorobogatova, V., G. Kasim and E. Minkevich, eds. Vilkovo: A Town in the Danube Delta. Odessa: Prychornomoria, 1996.

Solomon, Flavius, Alexandru Zub and Marius Chelcu, eds. Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea from the Ottoman Conquest to the Present. Iasi: Trinitas, 2005.

Sonevytsky, Maria. “Wild Music: Ideologies of Exoticism in Two Ukrainian Borderlands.” PhD Diss., Columbia University, 2012.

Stanton, Rebecca. Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2012.

Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time. Vol. 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. Translated by Richard Beardsworth and George Collins. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Strang, Veronica. Gardening the World: Agency, Identity, and the Ownership of Water. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.

Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Making of the Georgian Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Tanny, Jarrod. City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Thorpe, Nick. The Danube: A Journey Upriver From the Black Sea to the Black Forest. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Taki, Viktor. Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire. I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Todorova, Maria. Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Toledano, Ehud R. The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression: 1840-1890. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Anna Trofimova, ed. Greeks on the Black Sea: Ancient Art from the Hermitage. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.

Uehling, Greta Lynn. Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tatars’ Deportation and Return. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Van Assche, K., P. Teampau, P. Devlieger and C. Suciu. “Liquid Boundaries in Marginal Marshes: Reconstructions of Identity in the Romanian Danube Delta.” Sociologia Ruralis 53 (2008): 115–133.

Vryonis, Speros. The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor: And the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century. Vol. 4. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Vryonis Jr., Speros, ed. The Greeks and the Sea. New Rochelle, NY: Aristide Caratzas, 1991.

Weaver, Carol. The Politics of the Black Sea Region: EU Neighbourhood, Conflict Zone or Future Security Community. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013.

Wechsberg, Joseph. The Danube: 2,000 Years of History, Myth, and Legend. New York:

            Newsweek, 1979.

Weiner, Amir. Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Wilson, Andrew. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Winder, Simon. Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014.                      

Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

World Wildlife Fund. Sustainable Navigation in Ukraine: Alternatives in and around the Ukrainian Danube Delta. Washington, DC: World Wildlife Fund, 2009.

Woolf, Greg, “A Sea of Faith.” Mediterranean Historical Review 18 (2003): 126-143.

Yekelchyk, Serhy. Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.