02830nam 2200541 a 450 991077959860332120230802005930.01-78023-070-21-299-19101-0(CKB)2550000001005999(EBL)1127626(OCoLC)828792669(SSID)ssj0000906834(PQKBManifestationID)12422824(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906834(PQKBWorkID)10861232(PQKB)10475443(MiAaPQ)EBC1127626(Au-PeEL)EBL1127626(CaPaEBR)ebr10660927(CaONFJC)MIL450351(EXLCZ)99255000000100599920130222d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEdge of empires[electronic resource] a history of Georgia /Donald RayfieldLondon Reaktion Books20121 online resource (482 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78914-059-5 1-78023-030-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Edge of Empires Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Contents pt II; Introduction; 1. The Emergence of the Kartvelians; 2. The Origins of the Kingdom of Kartli; 3. Conversion; 4. The Arab Conquest; 5. Unification; 6. Davit the Builder; 7. Demetre and Giorgi III; 8. Queen Tamar; 9. Mongol Invasion; 10. The Fractured State; 11. Timur Lang and the Destruction of Georgia; 12. Fratricide; 13. King Teimuraz I; 14. Teimuraz Dispossessed; 15. The Eighteenth Century; 16. The Russian Conquest of Kartli-Kakhetia; 17. King Solomon's End; 18. Vice-regency; 19. Reaction and Revolution; 20. Independence21. Soviet Annexation22. After Stalin; 23. Independence Restored; References; Chronology; Maps and Dynastic Trees; Select Bibliography; Photo Acknowledgements; IndexLocated at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date account has been written about this little-known country-until now. Remedying this omission, Donald Rayfield accesses a mass of new material from recently opened archives to tell Georgia's absorbing story. Beginning wiGeorgia (Republic)History947.58Rayfield Donald764894MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779598603321Edge of empires3804953UNINA