The Caspian World: Connections and Contentions at a Modern Eurasian Crossroads

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Synopsis
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 Yaşar, Rustin Zarkar
Copyright:
2025

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Book Size:
432 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781501781292
Related ISBNs:
9781501781285, 9781501777172, 9781501781278
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
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Cornell University, The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Earth Sciences
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Abbas Amanat
Edited by:
Kevin Gledhill
Edited by:
Kayhan A. Nejad

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