Edge of empires : a history of Georgia | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:This is a comprehensive history of Georgia focusing not only on the post-Soviet era but on the full sweep of its turbulent past. The book describes Georgia's complex struggles with the many empires which have tried to control, fragment or even exterminate the country

Print Book, English, 2019

Publisher: Reaktion Books, London, 2019

Genre:History

Physical Description:486 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9781789140590, 1789140595

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1053903394

Contents:

Introduction

The emergence of the Kartvelians

The origins of the Kingdom of Kartli

Conversion

The Arab conquest

Unification

Davit the builder

Demetre and Giorgi III

Queen Tamar

Mongol invasion

The fractured state

Timur Lang and the destruction of Georgia

Fratricide

King Teimuraz I

Teimuraz dispossessed

The eighteenth century

The Russian conquest of Kartli-Kakhetia

King Solomon's end

Vice-regency

Reaction and revolution

Independence

Soviet annexation

After Stalin

Independence restored