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History of the Caucasus Volume 2

In the Shadow of Great Powers
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Englisch
Bloomsbury Academicerschienen am05.10.2023
In the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer´s History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present day. After the Kingdom of Georgia´s golden age of independent power and cultural blossoming in the 12th and early 13th centuries, the Caucasus was overrun by the Mongols and soon disintegrated into innumerable smaller kingdoms, principalities and khanates. At the same time, an Armenian kingdom in exile maintained a precarious independence in Cilicia, today´s southern Turkey, by applying a three-way diplomatic policy balanced between the Mongol Il-Khanate, the Crusader states and, to a lesser degree, the Mameluke Empire. Then followed four centuries during which the highly fragmented polities of the North and South Caucasus became political pawns of the regional great powers, above all the Ottomans, Iran and Russia. In the wake of World War I the South Caucasus enjoyed a short-lived independence whereas its northern neighbours were engulfed by the Russian civil wars. But by 1921 the Soviet Union had re-established Russian dominance over the whole region and, from a Western perspective, the region disappeared´ behind the Iron Curtain. Nevertheless, the Caucasian nations kept their pronounced identities even under Soviet rule, giving rise at the dissolution of the Soviet Union to a number of internecine conflicts. Whereas the Russian Federation managed to maintain its supremacy over the North Caucasus - albeit at the cost of bloody wars and insurrections - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia succeeded in more or less gaining control over their destiny. Of these three republics, only Azerbaijan secured a wide-ranging independence thanks to its fossil fuel resources. Following Russian interference, Georgia lost control over two of its provinces while Armenia remains dependent on Russian support in the face of its notoriously antagonistic relations with neighbouring Azerbaijan and Turkey over the unresolved issue of Karabakh. In the Shadow of Great Powers includes some 200 full-colour images and maps which further bring the turbulent history of this region to light.mehr
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KlappentextIn the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer´s History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present day. After the Kingdom of Georgia´s golden age of independent power and cultural blossoming in the 12th and early 13th centuries, the Caucasus was overrun by the Mongols and soon disintegrated into innumerable smaller kingdoms, principalities and khanates. At the same time, an Armenian kingdom in exile maintained a precarious independence in Cilicia, today´s southern Turkey, by applying a three-way diplomatic policy balanced between the Mongol Il-Khanate, the Crusader states and, to a lesser degree, the Mameluke Empire. Then followed four centuries during which the highly fragmented polities of the North and South Caucasus became political pawns of the regional great powers, above all the Ottomans, Iran and Russia. In the wake of World War I the South Caucasus enjoyed a short-lived independence whereas its northern neighbours were engulfed by the Russian civil wars. But by 1921 the Soviet Union had re-established Russian dominance over the whole region and, from a Western perspective, the region disappeared´ behind the Iron Curtain. Nevertheless, the Caucasian nations kept their pronounced identities even under Soviet rule, giving rise at the dissolution of the Soviet Union to a number of internecine conflicts. Whereas the Russian Federation managed to maintain its supremacy over the North Caucasus - albeit at the cost of bloody wars and insurrections - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia succeeded in more or less gaining control over their destiny. Of these three republics, only Azerbaijan secured a wide-ranging independence thanks to its fossil fuel resources. Following Russian interference, Georgia lost control over two of its provinces while Armenia remains dependent on Russian support in the face of its notoriously antagonistic relations with neighbouring Azerbaijan and Turkey over the unresolved issue of Karabakh. In the Shadow of Great Powers includes some 200 full-colour images and maps which further bring the turbulent history of this region to light.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-7556-3628-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum05.10.2023
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 248 mm, Höhe 297 mm, Dicke 38 mm
Gewicht2358 g
Illustrationen180 colour illus
Artikel-Nr.59652215
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
I. A Fragmented Identity: An Introduction to Contemporary Ethnic and Political Conditions in the CaucasusII. In the Wake of International Great-Power Politics1.The Golden Age of Georgia2.The Mongol incursions and supremacyIII. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia1.Semi-independent Armenian warlords and Muslim Armenian viziers2.The Rubenids of Cilicia: From principality to kingdom3.The Kingdom of Cilician ArmeniaIV. The South Caucasus under Turkmen, Ottoman and Iranian Safavid Domination1.Georgia and the devastations of Timur-e Lang2.The partition of Georgia Excursus: The Armenian catholicosate´s return to Etchmiadzin and a renewed schism3.The South Caucasus as battleground for eight Ottoman-Safavid wars4.The South Caucasus under Safavid ruleExcursus: The Armenian Mekhitarist congregation5.A brief reunification of Kartli and Kakheti and the foundation of independent khanatesV. First Russian Advances into the North Caucasus 1. The defence pact of 1557 between Kabarda and Russia 2. The Cossacks and the first Russian military lines 3. Mongol Kalmyks in the North-Eastern CaucasusVI. The Caucasus under Russian Rule 1.From the Treaty of Georgievsk (1783) to the annexation of Georgia in 18012.Iran´s interlude with Napoleon and Russia´s conquest of the South Caucasian khanates and sultanates3.The resistance of North Caucasian mountain peoples3.1Yermolov´s first offensives north of the Greater Caucasus3.2The jihad of the imams3.3The conquest, resettlement and expulsion of the Circassians4.Russian administration and the rise of nationalism5.The Russian conquest of former West Armenia 1877-78Excursus: Oil-drilling at Baku and the Nobel brothers6.The emergence of nationalist and social-revolutionary parties, Armenian massacres and ethnic unrest6.1Armenian nationalist and socialist parties in the Russian and Ottoman empires6.2Georgian socialists6.3Pan-Turkism and socialism in the South Caucasian Muslim provincesVII. A Short-Lived Independence and Foreign Interventions1.World War I, the Armenian Genocide and the collapse of the Russian Empire2.The Transcaucasian Republic, the declaration of independence of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and foreign interventions2.1The short-lived Transcaucasian Republic2.2Ethnic and social conflicts in Georgia2.3The Republic of Armenia2.4The race for Baku2.5War in Karabakh, Nakhchivan, Zangezur and Kars2.6Armenia and the Paris Peace Conference3.The Russian Civil Wars 1917-1920 and the short-lived North Caucasian statesVIII. Under Soviet Rule1.Soviet consolidation of power, collectivization and Stalin´s purges 2.Operation Edelweiss: The battle for the Caucasus in World War II Excursus: Richard Sorge, Stalin´s master spy3.Deportations and the start of the Cold War4.Political stagnation and the rise of nationalismIX. Independence in the South Caucasus1.The disintegration of the Soviet Union2.The Armenian declaration of independence and the issue of Karabakh3.The Azerbaijani declaration of independence and the development of the oil and gas industry4.The First Karabakh War 1992-19945.Georgian independence and the South Ossetian and Abkhazian warsX. Autonomy and Failed Independence in the North Caucasus 1. The northern region: Rostov, Krasnodar, Adygea, Stavropol and Kalmykia 2. The western and central region: Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia-Alania and Ingushetia 3. The eastern region: Chechnya and DagestanXI. The Caucasus in the Twenty-First Century1.Republics and regions of the northern Caucasus2.The independent republics in the southern Caucasus2.1Azerbaijan2.2The Second Karabakh War, 27 September-10 November 20202.3Armenia2.4Georgia2.4.1The Georgian-Russian War, 7-12 August 20082.4.2Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the 2008 war3.OutlookAppendicesNotesBibliographyList of MapsPhoto creditsAcknowledgementsIndexesConcepts PeoplePlacesmehr