James Forsyth

The Caucasus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative new survey of the Caucasus, tracing a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 942
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1334g
• ISBN-13: 9781107595590
• ISBN-10: 1107595592
• Artikelnr.: 44034274

Autorenporträt

James Forsyth is former Reader and Head of the Department of Russian at the University of Aberdeen. His publications include A History of the Peoples of Siberia (Cambridge, 1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Caucasian origins
2. Early medieval Caucasia: the seventh to tenth centuries
3. The Caucasus, Persia, Turkestan, Azerbaijan, Europe: 10th-12th centuries
4. The later Crusades, Mongols and Ottoman Turks 13th-15th centuries
5. Georgia, Shirvan and North Caucasus to the 15th century
6. Caucasia between Persia and Ottoman Turkey
7. The Caucasus and the Russians
8. Caucasia in the eighteenth century
9. Russia's conquest of the Caucasus
10. World War and Russian revolution
11. Independent Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and North Caucasus
12. White Russians, native insurrection, Bolshevik conquest
13. The North and South Caucasus peoples 1920-39
14. The Second World War, Beria and Stalin
15. Caucasia from Stalin's death to the 1980s (1)
16. Caucasia from Stalin's death to the 1980s (2)
17. The Caucasus and the end of the Soviet Union
18. Armenia, Karabagh, Azerbaijan
19. Georgia 1987-93
20. North Caucasus 1987-93
21. The Caucasus enters the twenty-first century
22. Russian arbitrary politics and Georgian resurgence
Bibliography.