{"product_id":"edge-of-empires-a-history-of-georgia-paperback","title":"Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Rayfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocated 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eEdge of Empires\u003c\/i\u003e draws our eyes to this often overlooked nation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Rayfield \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of Russian and Georgian in the Department of Russian, Queen Mary, University of London. Among his many books, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Literature of Georgia: A History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him\u003c\/i\u003e as well as editor-in-chief of the immense \u003ci\u003eComprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.2 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770120503584,"sku":"9781789140590","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bc7b4d56a056710261b00af856a3b978.webp?v=1780364894","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/edge-of-empires-a-history-of-georgia-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}