ABOUT BOOK

When the scientific study of the Black Sea Region began in the late 18th ~and early 19th centuries, initially commissioned by adjacent powers such as ~the Habsburg and the Russian empires, this terra incognita was not yet ~considered part of Europe. The eighteen chapters of this volume show a broad ~range of thematic foci and theoretical approaches - the result of the ~enormous richness of the European macrocosm and the BSR. The microcosms of ~the many different case studies under scrutiny, however, demonstrate the ~historical dimension of exchange between the allegedly opposite poles of ~`East' and `West' and underscore the importance of mutual influences in the ~development of Europe and the BSR.