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Success of the L A Times Book Prize for HistoryIn this research of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia to the shores of the renowned ocean, Neal Ascherson examines the problematic meaning of community, nationhood, history, and lifestyle in an area well-known for its remarkable issues. Why is the Rear Ocean ethnicities distinct, Ascherson agrues, may be the way their comonent components got together within the millennia to form special languages, towns, beliefs, and industry. As he exhibits with ability and persuasiveness, Dark Ocean designs in the Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey, and Greece have connected the people of Europe and Asia together for hundreds of years.