The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region: Evolution and Transformation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138081604)

This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation.

Author: Evgeny Khvalkov
ISBN-10: 1138081604
ISBN-13: 9781138081604
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 444
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d