The Caspian World
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The Caspian World

Connections and Contentions at a Modern Eurasian Crossroads

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The Caspian World

Connections and Contentions at a Modern Eurasian Crossroads

About this book

The Caspian World is a wide-ranging exploration of the strategic, political, and commercial significance of the Caspian Sea, a site where empires—Russian, Persian, Ottoman, and British—competed, warred, and collaborated. As with the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, or the Black Sea, the geography of the Caspian Sea creates a sphere of unique political dynamics and possibilities, and the essays in this volume describe the role of the Caspian as a force of connection, as well as a source of threats, to the states on its shores.

Rather than narrating history through binary, state-to-state relationships, however, The Caspian World uncovers the sea as a space of multi-sided exchanges and numerous centers, tracing how the Caspian has shaped the commercial, intellectual, diplomatic, and imperial projects throughout the region.

Contributors: Ulfat Abdurasulov, Abbas Amanat, Elena Andreeva, George Bournoutian, Iurii Demin, Layla S. Diba, Etienne Forestier-Peyrat, Kevin Gledhill, Guido Hausmann, Kayhan A. Nejad, Matthew P. Romaniello, Saghar Sadeghian, Alisa Shablovskaia, Ernest Tucker, Denis V. Volkov, Murat Ya?ar, Rustin Zarkar

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Note on Transliteration
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. The Persianate Caspian: Isolation to Inclusion
  6. Part I: Early Expansion: Knowledge, Commerce, and Diplomacy in the Early Modern Caspian
  7. Part II: Ascendency and Annexation: Empire-building, State-formation, and the Transition to the Modern
  8. Part III: Resistance to Supremacy: Contesting Imperial and State Control on the Southern Caspian Littoral
  9. Bibliography
  10. Contributors
  11. Index