History of the Caucasus - Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 392 |
| Format | 24,6 x 3,4 x 29,9 cm |
| Hardback | |
| Gewicht | 2398 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781788310079 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78831007UA |
A richly-illustrated history of the Caucasus region
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"Magnificent [and] wondrous." The Spectator "Rich and illuminating." Literary Review"Phenomenally accurate." History Today "Stunning." The Morning Star"Sweeping." The New European"A wonderful book." Current World Archaeology "In a class of its own." The Caspian Post A landscape of high mountains and narrow valleys stretching from the Black to the Caspian Seas, the Caucasus region has been home to human populations for nearly 2 million years. In this richly illustrated 2-volume series, historian and explorer Christoph Baumer tells the story of the region's history through to the present day. It is a story of encounters between many different peoples, from Scythians, Turkic and Mongol peoples of the East to Greeks and Romans from the West, from Indo-European tribes from the West as well as the East, and to Arabs and Iranians from the South. It is a story of rival claims by Empires and nations and of how the region has become home to more than 50 languages that can be heard within it s borders to this very day.This first volume charts the period from the emergence of the earliest human populations in the region - the first known human populations outside Africa - to the Seljuk conquests of 1050CE. Along the way the book charts the development of Neolithic, Iron and Bronze Age cultures, the first recognizable Caucasian state and the arrival of a succession of the great transnational Empires, from the Greeks, the Romans and the Armenian to competing Christian and Muslim conquerors. The History of the Caucasus: Volume 1 also includes more than 200 full colour images and maps bringing the changing cultures of these lands vividly to life.
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Baumer sets out the wonders of the past, sometimes doing so valley by valley. This is a real treat: a rare book whose images do justice to the text and vice versa. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Peter Frankopan The Spectator