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Book The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy  1658 1832

Download or read book The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy 1658 1832 written by David Marshall Lang and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the history of Georgia on the eve of the Russian annexation in 1801, and with the years following the annexation. Also looks at the earlier dynasties of the Mukhranian Bagratids and the Bagratids of Kakhet'i.

Book The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy  1658 1832  David Marshall Lang

Download or read book The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy 1658 1832 David Marshall Lang written by David Marshall Lang and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy  1958 1832

Download or read book The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy 1958 1832 written by David Marshall Lang and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of the Georgian Nation  Second Edition

Download or read book The Making of the Georgian Nation Second Edition written by Ronald Grigor Suny and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . the best study in English to date for an understanding of Georgian nationalism." —Religious Studies Review ". . . the standard account of Georgian history in English." —American Historical Review ". . . tour de force research . . . fascinating reading." —American Political Science Review Like the other republics floating free after the demise of the Soviet empire, the independent republic of Georgia is reinventing its past, recovering what had been forgotten or distorted during the long years of Russian and Soviet rule. Whether Georgia can successfully be transformed from a society rent by conflict into a pluralistic democratic nation will depend on Georgians rethinking their history. This is the first comprehensive treatment of Georgian history, from the ethnogenesis of the Georgians in the first millennium B.C., through the period of Russian and Soviet rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the emergence of an independent republic in 1991, the ethnic and civil warfare that has ensued, and perspectives for Georgia's future.

Book Accessions List

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  • Author : United States. Department of State. Library Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Accessions List written by United States. Department of State. Library Division and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crimes of Khruschev  Parts 1 7

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Crimes of Khruschev Parts 1 7 written by United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eurasian Slavery  Ransom and Abolition in World History  1200 1860

Download or read book Eurasian Slavery Ransom and Abolition in World History 1200 1860 written by Christoph Witzenrath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the context of European colonial expansion would suggest. Slavery and slave trading, though little researched, were common across wide stretches of Eurasia, and a slave economy played a vital part in the political and cultural contacts between Russia and its Eurasian neighbours. This volume concentrates on captivity, slavery, ransom and abolition in the vicinity of the Eurasian steppe from the early modern period to recent developments and explores their legacy and relevance down to the modern times. The contributions centre on the Russian Empire, while bringing together scholars from various historical traditions of the leading states in this region, including Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire, and their various successor states. At the centre of attention are transfers, transnational fertilizations and the institutions, rituals and representations facilitating enslavement, exchanges and ransoming. The essays in this collection define and quantify slavery, covering various regions in the steppe and its vicinity and looking at trans-cultural issues and the implications of slavery and ransom for social, economic and political connections across the steppe. In so doing the volume provides both a broad overview of the subject, and a snapshot of the latest research from leading scholars working in this area.

Book From Dynastic Principality to Imperial District

Download or read book From Dynastic Principality to Imperial District written by Kenneth Church and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interactions

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  • Author : Jerry H. Bentley
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2005-08-31
  • ISBN : 0824840364
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Interactions written by Jerry H. Bentley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with diverse issues and contexts, but each highlights the very general theme of cross-cultural interaction. Although they draw heavily on area studies, the contributors seek to put previously separate bodies of scholarship in dialogue with one another by exploring those interactions that have historically linked world regions. Four general themes are especially prominent in this volume, and the essays develop sophisticated positions on each. On the issue of agency and structure, they offer useful guidance toward recognizing the importance of both human agency and historical structures in historical processes. On the theme of states and their roles in cross-cultural interactions, they acknowledge that states do not entirely control their own destinies but nevertheless deeply influence the development of these exchanges, sometimes decisively so. Regarding the theme of the global and the local, they emphasize the reciprocal influence of global dynamics and local circumstances and agree that analyses must take both into account to be successful. Finally, all of the essays allow that the theme of cross-cultural interaction is crucial to understanding the world and its development through time. Contributors:C. A. Bayly; Sven Beckert; Jerry H. Bentley; Renate Bridenthal; Charles Bright; Michael Geyer; Alan L. Karras; Adam McKeown; Colin Palmer; Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.; Caroline Reeves; John O. Voll; Kären Wigen; Anand A. Yang.

Book Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World  2 volumes   2 volumes

Download or read book Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World 2 volumes 2 volumes written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 1143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference work that thoroughly documents the extensive military history of the Islamic world between the 7th century and the present day. Military-political conflict—and the resulting factionalism, shifts in leadership, and divergent belief systems—has been a constant and crucial part of the Islamic world. In order to fully grasp the cultural, social, or political aspects of Islam in the modern world, it is necessary to comprehend the rich tapestry of Islamic history from pre-Islamic times to the present, much of which involved armed conflict. Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia provides hundreds of entries on wars, revolutions, sieges, institutions, leaders, armies, weapons, and other aspects of wars and military life, enabling readers to understand the complex role conflict has played in Islamic life throughout history and see how Islamic warfare has evolved over the centuries. This reference work covers not only the traditional Middle Eastern regions and countries but also provides relevant historical information regarding Islam in North Africa, Central Asia, Southeastern Asia, and Oceania.

Book The Crimes of Khrushchev

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Crimes of Khrushchev written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vagabond Life

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  • Author : George Kennan
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2015-08-03
  • ISBN : 0295803363
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Vagabond Life written by George Kennan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War. In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed journals of his adventures, which today form a small part of his voluminous archive in the Library of Congress. Frith Maier has combined the diaries with selected letters and Kennan’s published articles on the Caucasus to create a vivid narrative of his six-month odyssey. The journals have been organized into three parts. The first covers Kennan’s journey to the Caucasus, a significant feat in itself. The second chronicles his expedition across the main Caucasus Ridge with the Georgian nobleman Prince Jorjadze. In the final part, Kennan circles back through the lands of Chechnya to slip once again into the Dagestan highlands. Kennan’s remarkable curiosity and perception come through in this lively and accessible narrative, as does his humor at the challenges of his travels. In her introduction, Maier discusses Kennan’s illustrious career and his reliability as an observer, while providing background on the Caucasus to help clarify Kennan’s descriptions of daily life, religion, etiquette, customary law, and local government. In an Afterword, she retraces Kennan’s steps to find descendants of Prince Jorjadze and describes her work in coproducing, with filmmaker Christopher Allingham, a documentary inspired by Kennan’s Caucasus journey.

Book The Crimes of Khrushchev  Consultations with G  Zaldastani  G  Nakashidse  D  K  Petkoff  and  C  B  Choukanoff  Jan  8  1960

Download or read book The Crimes of Khrushchev Consultations with G Zaldastani G Nakashidse D K Petkoff and C B Choukanoff Jan 8 1960 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagining History at the Crossroads

Download or read book Imagining History at the Crossroads written by Stephen H. Rapp and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia

Download or read book Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia written by Marc Raeff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Raeff is one of the truly outstanding scholars of Russian history. This volume offers a sampling of the best essays from his prolific, forty-year career; they span the history of Russia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. In these essays, Raeff considers the problems of imperial Russian politics and administration, analyzes Russia's intellectual and social history as it relates to the governance of the multiethnic empire, and places the institutional and intellectual history of Russia in the context of other Western and Central European developments. Raeff's essays offer a sketch of the generation that came of age in the era of the Napoleonic Wars and the ensuing attempts at constitutional reform—the generation that laid the foundations of the modern Russian national consciousness. He explores modernization reform and liberalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, the acquisition and incorporation of Russia's multiethnic population, and the politics and administration of the reigns of Peter III and Catherine II. He examines how the Russian élites assimilated values from the Western and Central European Enlightenment and assesses the important intellectual and ideological effects the Enlightenment had on the nation. The volume concludes with a comparative look at the process of Westernization, focusing on issues of literacy, state leadership, and the role of the intelligentsia. Many of these seminal essays are long out of print and hard to find. This timely volume makes Marc Raeff's insights readily available as Russia reemerges as a nation-state facing "new" challenges that are often deeply rooted in its past.

Book Russia at War  2 volumes

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  • Author : Timothy C. Dowling
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2014-12-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1189 pages

Download or read book Russia at War 2 volumes written by Timothy C. Dowling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 1189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use reference explores the people and events that shaped Russian military history—and impacted Europe, Asia, and the world—over the past eight centuries. Russian military history is an often-overlooked field. Yet Russia is and has long been an important player in global politics, and its military exploits have been central to its role on the world stage. This study of Russia's military past provides insights into European and U.S. history, including the conduct of the two World Wars and the Cold War, and will help readers better appreciate the current geopolitical situation. This work covers major events and figures in Russian military history from the end of Mongol domination in the 14th century to the present day. More than 650 entries by scores of expert contributors detail events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that have influenced Russian warfare over 800 years. Two alphabetically arranged volumes explore such conflicts as the Russo-Polish Wars, the Great Northern War, the Russo-Turkish Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Cross references and further readings in each entry serve as jumping-off points for further exploration.