Crimea: A History by Kent, Neil

Crimea: A History

In 2016 Crimea shaped the headlines much as it did some 160 years ago, when the Crimean...
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Author: Neil Kent
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Crimea: A History by Kent, Neil

Crimea: A History

¥8,432

Crimea: A History

¥8,432
Author: Neil Kent
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In 2016 Crimea shaped the headlines much as it did some 160 years ago, when the Crimean War pitted Britain, France and Turkey against Russia. Yet few books have been published on the history of the peninsula. For many readers, Crimea seems as remote today as it was when colonized by the ancient Greeks.

Neil Kent's book recounts the history of the Crimea over three millennia. A crossroads between Europe and Asia, ships sailed to and from Crimean ports, forming a bridge that carried merchandise and transmitted ideas and innovations.

Greeks, Scythians, Tartars, Russians, Armenians and Genoese are among those who settled the peninsula since antiquity, a demographic patchwork that reflects its geography. The religious beliefs of its inhabitants are almost as numerous: the Hebraicized beliefs of the Karaim Tartars, Islam, Judaisim, Russian and Greek Orthodoxy, as well as Roman Catholicism. This mosaic is also reflected in places of worship and the palaces which still adorn Crimea: imperial Romanov Massandra, the 'noble nest' of Prince Voronzov at Alupca or the Palace of Bakhchisaray built for the Tartar Khan. For some two centuries balmy Yalta and its environs were a veritable Black Sea Riviera, where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the end of the Second World War.

Author: Neil Kent
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Published: 09/15/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.54w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781911723356

About the Author
Neil Kent is Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. His many previous books include The Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries, 1770-1940 and Helsinki: A Cultural and Literary History.

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