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Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia
Donald Rayfield
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Description for Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia
Hardback. Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ends with today's volatile President Saakashvili. It also deals with the country's struggles with the empires which have tried to control, fragment or even exterminate it. Num Pages: 512 pages, 40 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 157 x 41. Weight in Grams: 914.
Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Donald Rayfield redresses this balance in Edge of Empires, focusing not merely on the post-Soviet era, like many other books on Georgia, but on the whole of its history, accessing a mass of new material from the country's recently opened archives. The book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ends with today's ... Read more
Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Donald Rayfield redresses this balance in Edge of Empires, focusing not merely on the post-Soviet era, like many other books on Georgia, but on the whole of its history, accessing a mass of new material from the country's recently opened archives. The book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ends with today's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780230306
SKU
V9781780230306
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About Donald Rayfield
Donald Rayfield is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian in the Department of Russian, Queen Mary, University of London. He has published the standard history of Georgia's literature, and is editor-in-chief of the immense Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary. His Stalin and His Hangmen has been translated into nine languages.
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