Edge of Empires
Title | Edge of Empires PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Rayfield |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | 482 |
Release | 2013-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1780230702 |
Located 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 with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ending with the volatile presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Rayfield deals with the country’s internal politics and swings between disintegration and unity, and divulges Georgia’s complex struggles with the empires that have tried to control, fragment, or even destroy it. He describes the country’s conflicts with Xenophon’s Greeks, Arabs, invading Turks, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Persian Empire, the Russian Empire, and Soviet totalitarianism. A wide-ranging examination of this small but colorful country, its dramatic state-building, and its tragic political mistakes, Edge of Empires draws our eyes to this often overlooked nation.
Edge of Empire
Title | Edge of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Jasanoff |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307425711 |
In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.
Edge of Empires
Title | Edge of Empires PDF eBook |
Author | John M. CARROLL |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674029232 |
In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history.
The Empires' Edge
Title | The Empires' Edge PDF eBook |
Author | Sasha Davis |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 171 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820347353 |
Based on a decade of research, The Empires' Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought and contends that the great political contest of the twenty-first century is about the choice between domination or the pursuit of a more egalitarian and cooperative future.
Star Wars Edge of the Empire Roleplaying Game
Title | Star Wars Edge of the Empire Roleplaying Game PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 94 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Fantasy games |
ISBN | 9781633443112 |
At the Edge of Empire
Title | At the Edge of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Hinderaker |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2003-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801871375 |
During the 17th century, the Western border region of North America which existed just beyond the British imperial reach became an area of opportunity, intrigue and conflict for the diverse peoples - Europeans and Indians alike - who lived there. This book examines the complex society there.
Edge of Empires
Title | Edge of Empires PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Chi |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Dura-Europos (Extinct city) |
ISBN | 9780691154688 |
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University on the occasion of the exhibition Edge of Empires, Sept. 23, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.