- 384 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
With the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014 - 160 years after the Crimean War – the peninsula has come to the geopolitical fore once more on the global stage. This book provides a comprehensive history of the region that until now has been missing, one that stretches from ancient times through to the present and which explores various aspects and inhabitants through the ages. Kerstin S. Jobst examines the complex history of the multi-ethnic and pluri-religious Crimea, and not only from a political perspective. Jobst deals with the manifold cultural and historical interdependencies that are central to the territory. The book presents myths and legends about the Crimea, as well as the various peoples for whom the Crimea was a settlement and transit area and who shaped the fate of the peninsula. These included Greek colonists, Eurasian nomads, Crimean Tatars, and others. A History of Crimea shows the importance of Crimea as a place of early Christianity, but also as a contact zone between different religions – Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It also emphasizes the role of the peninsula as a peripheral area of various great powers – the Roman Empire, Byzantium, the Golden Horde, and the Ottoman and Russian Empires. With this overview of 2, 000 years of Crimea's history, Kerstin S. Jobst places the most recent explosive events on the peninsula in their historical context and shows how the Crimea has become for the majority of Russians a highly emotionalized space since the first Russian annexation in 1783.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Maps
- A Note on the Translation
- Orientation: Terminology and Spelling
- Introduction
- 1 Crimea in Myth and Legend
- 2 Greeks, Scythians and Others
- 3 New Actors: Sarmatians and Others
- 4 The Mithridatic Wars: Crimea under Roman Rule
- 5 Goths, Huns, the “Great Migration” and Its Impact on Crimea
- 6 Crimea as a Site of Early Christianity
- 7 Crimea between the Eastern Roman Empire, Crimean Gothia and the Khazar Empire
- 8 Crimea between Kyivan Rus’, Byzantium and Eurasian Semi-Nomadic Groups
- 9 Kumans, Polovtsians and Kipchaks
- 10 The Fourth Crusade (1202–04) and Its Consequences for Crimea
- 11 The Pax Mongolica, Trade, Slavery and the “Black Death”
- 12 The Principalty of Theodoro and a Lithuanian Intermezzo
- 13 The Crimean Khanate: The Beginnings
- 14 The Establishment of the Crimean Khanate
- 15 The Crimean Khanate: Ottoman Suzerainty and the Balance of Power in Eastern Europe
- 16 Slavery and the Topos of the Crimean Tatar Warrior
- 17 The Nogai as a Factor in Early Modern Crimean History
- 18 Cossacks as a Factor in Early Modern Crimean History
- 19 Inside the Crimean Khanate
- 20 The Lead-Up to Annexation: The Strengthening of the Russian Empire, the “Greek Plan” and the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774
- 21 The ‘Independent’ Crimean Khanate and Russian Annexation (1774–83)
- 22 The First Decades of Russian Rule in Crimea
- 23 Multiethnic and Multireligious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: The Tatar Population – Gender Relations
- 24 Multiethnic and Multireligious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Inhabitants – Economic Development
- 25 The Crimean War: A ‘Modern’ War?
- 26 The Crimean War: The Events in the Peninsula
- 27 After the War: Crimea between 1856 and 1905
- 28 The Crimean Tatar Population after the Crimean War
- 29 The Revolution of 1905 and its Impact in Crimea
- 30 The First World War and the Revolution on the Periphery: The Crimean Peninsula, 1917–20
- 31 The Crimean Peninsula, 1920–41
- 32 Crimea in the Second World War
- 33 The Deportations of 1944/45 and Their Background
- 34 Crimea after the Second World War
- 35 After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Crimea as Part of Independent Ukraine
- 36 Russian Again?! Crimea after the Annexation of 2014
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index: People
- Index: Places
- Copyright