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Twelve Secrets in the Caucasus

Author : Essad Bey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 392934579X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Twelve Secrets in the Caucasus written by Essad Bey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essad Bey, the sickly son of an oil millionaire from Baku, Azerbaijan, receives permission from his father to spend the summer with his "milk brother” Ali Khan, passing the holiday in his home village in the wild Caucasus. So the two set out, under the custody of a wise attendant, into an archaic world in which chivalry counted more than buying power and poets were more highly regarded than princes – into a country in which, as a kind of curiosity shop of world history, all that is outlived and forgotten was loyally preserved. This is Essad Bey’s second book, which was first published in 1930. In it the author draws upon his Oriental imaginative powers, conjuring a vast panorama of the Caucasus, its people and customs. The result is a fresh and densely atmospheric work, even if not always laying claim to scientific accuracy. Often adding a touch of imagination, the author succeeds in bringing the heart and soul of this archaic world to life, which he had himself experienced and learned to love as a child.

The Russian-Chechen Conflict 1800-2000

Author : Robert Seely
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136327835
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Russian-Chechen Conflict 1800-2000 written by Robert Seely and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, the mountain territory of Chechnya was witness to the largest military campaign staged on Russian soil since World War II. The Russo-Chechen war is examined within the context of the bitter history between the two peoples, culminating in the expression of conflict from 1994-1996.

Blood and Oil in the Orient

Author : Essad Bey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3929345803
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Oil in the Orient written by Essad Bey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2008-01-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his lively and witty quasi-autobiography, Essad Bey tells us the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian Revolution in 1917, which brought him through half the Orient, through the Caucasus, then to Istanbul - where this book concludes - and finally to Berlin.

Russo-Chechen Conflict, 1800-2000

Author : Robert Seely
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714649929
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Russo-Chechen Conflict, 1800-2000 written by Robert Seely and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the bitter history between Russia and the Chechens and explains why the war took place.

The Orientalist

Author : Tom Reiss
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812972767
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Orientalist written by Tom Reiss and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal–and sometimes as heartbreaking–as his subject’s life.

Stories I Stole from Georgia

Author : Wendell Steavenson
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140678
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Stories I Stole from Georgia written by Wendell Steavenson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of life in Georgia after the fall of Communism introduces readers to the memorable, and sometimes insane, people who struggled to dominate the republics--and survive in them--after the decline of Soviet power.

Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819

Author : N. Gvosdev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403932786
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819 written by N. Gvosdev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the Russian Empire expanded across the barrier of the Caucasus mountains to take control of the Georgian lands at the close of the eighteenth century. With no organized plan for conquest, Imperial policy fluctuated based both on personnel changes in the Imperial government and strategic re-evaluations of Imperial interests. Particular attention is paid to the role of two significant individuals - Princes Potemkin and Tsitsianov - in pushing the Empire toward total incorporation.

The Chechens

Author : Amjad M. Jaimoukha
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415323284
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis The Chechens by : Amjad M. Jaimoukha

Download or read book The Chechens written by Amjad M. Jaimoukha and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people, including chapters on history, religion, politics, economy, culture, literature and media.

Spiritual Homelands

Author : Asher D. Biemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110637561
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Homelands written by Asher D. Biemann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances.

Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall

Author : Andrew Meier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242064
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall written by Andrew Meier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-01-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question."—George Kennan "A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and unflinching reportage. Throughout, Meier captures the country's present limbo—a land rich in potential but on the brink of staggering back into tyranny—in an account that is by turns heartrending and celebratory, comic and terrifying. A 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. "Black Earth is the best investigation of post-Soviet Russia since David Remnick's Resurrection. Andrew Meier is a truly penetrating eyewitness."—Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror; "If President Bush were to read only the chapters regarding Chechnya in Meier's Black Earth, he would gain a priceless education about Putin's Russia."—Zbigniew Brzezinski "Even after the fall of Communism, most American reporting on Russia often goes no further than who's in and who's out in the Kremlin and the business oligarchy. Andrew Meier's Russia reaches far beyond . . . this Russia is one where, as Meier says, history has a hard time hiding. Readers could not easily find a livelier or more insightful guide."—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin "From the pointless war in Chechnya to the wild, exhilarating, and dispiriting East and the rise of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer—it's all here in great detail, written in the layers the story deserves, with insight, passion, and genuine affection."—Michael Specter, staff writer, The New Yorker; co-chief, The New York Times Moscow Bureau, 1995-98. "[Meier's] knowledge of the country and his abiding love for its people stands out on every page of this book....But it is his linguistic fluency, in particular, which enables Mr. Meier to dig so deeply into Russia's black earth."—The Economist "A wonderful travelogue that depicts the Russian people yet again trying to build a new life without really changing their old one."—William Taubman, The New York Times Book Review.

Georgia

Author : Peter Nasmyth
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468316249
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Georgia written by Peter Nasmyth and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Elegiac, quirky, readable, deeply knowledgeable . . . The best cultural-historical introduction to that tempestuous land,” the Georgian republic. (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs) Georgia has been called the world’s most beautiful country, yet little is known about it beyond its borders. This topical and vital book by Peter Nasmyth, the “ideal chronicler” (Literary Review) is the much-celebrated introduction to Georgia’s remarkable people, landscape, and culture. Over its 3,000-year-old history, Georgia has been ruled by everyone from the Greeks to the Ottomans, became a coveted part of the Russian Empire for a hundred years, and was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1921. Since gaining independence in 1991, Georgia has undergone a dramatic socioeconomical and political transformation, and although its political situation remains precarious, Georgia’s strong sense of nationhood has reinvigorated the country. Vivid and comprehensive, Nasmyth’s Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry is a unique eyewitness account of Georgia’s rebirth and creates an unforgettable portrait of its remarkable landscape, history, people and culture. Offering fascinating insights into the life of ordinary and high profile Georgians, it is essential reading for anyone who wants to know more of this astonishing place. “The best book on post-Soviet Georgia . . . Nasmyth is prepared to take risks―hanging out with mafiosi and walking through minefields to reach that part of western Georgia that has bloodily seceded . . . a riveting portrait . . . powerfully evocative.” —Independent “It would be difficult to read Nasmyth's quirky, entertaining, informative, sometimes surreal book without having an impulse to ring a travel agent and ask for flights to Tblisi.” —Literary Review

The Ghost of Freedom

Author : Charles King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884323
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Freedom written by Charles King and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya. Combining riveting storytelling with insightful analysis, The Ghost of Freedom is the first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to the rise of new countries after the Soviet Union's collapse. In evocative and accessible prose, Charles King reveals how tsars, highlanders, revolutionaries, and adventurers have contributed to the fascinating history of this borderland, providing an indispensable guide to the complicated histories, politics, and cultures of this intriguing frontier. Based on new research in multiple languages, the book shows how the struggle for freedom in the mountains, hills, and plains of the Caucasus has been a perennial theme over the last two hundred years--a struggle which has led to liberation as well as to new forms of captivity. The book sheds valuable light on the origins of modern disputes, including the ongoing war in Chechnya, conflicts in Georgia and Azerbaijan, and debates over oil from the Caspian Sea and its impact on world markets. Ranging from the salons of Russian writers to the circus sideshows of America, from the offices of European diplomats to the villages of Muslim mountaineers, The Ghost of Freedom paints a rich portrait of one of the world's most turbulent and least understood regions.

Books and Notes

Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cosmopolitan Approach to Literature

Author : Didier Coste
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000804488
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Cosmopolitan Approach to Literature written by Didier Coste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cross-disciplinary approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an “experimental cosmopolitan” epistemology de- and recontextualizes the texts from the points of view of multiple cultures and historical moments, enriching interpretation and aesthetic experience beyond the backgrounds of the present reader and the origin of a particular literary discourse. Trusting the authority of an author or an “original” text and ignoring the fundamental plurilingualism of the literary experience obstructs the wealth of cosmopolitan reading in a globalized and fragmented world. A thorough critique of both local and overarching theories in clear dissent from the binaries of “decolonial theory” and the overextension of “nomadic theory” supports a precise research and teaching methodology at variance with past trends of Comparative and World Literature. Considering literature as the aestheticized use of language, which is universal, the many analyses provided can be extrapolated to other genres, eras, and cultural areas.

Migrating Minds

Author : Didier Coste
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000488039
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Migrating Minds written by Didier Coste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the 2023 "René Wellek Prize for the Best Edited Essay Collection" by the American Comparative Literature Association, Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with 20 innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives. The volume satisfies the need for a stronger involvement of Comparative and World Literatures and Cultures, Translation, and Education Theories in this crucial debate, and also proposes an experimental way to explore in depth the necessity of a cosmopolitan method as well as the riches of cosmopolitan representations. The essays follow a logical progression from the situated philosophical and political foundations of the debate to interdisciplinary propositions for a pedagogy of cosmopolitanism through studies of modern and contemporary cosmopolitan cultural practices in literature and the arts and the concurrent analysis of prototypes of cosmopolitan identities. This trajectory allows readers to appreciate new historical, theoretical, aesthetic, and practical implications of cosmopolitanism that pertain to multiple genres and media, under different modes of production and reception. In the deterritorialized landscape of Migrating Minds, mental and sentimental mobility, rather than the legacy of place, is the key to an efficient, humanist response to deadening globalization.

Approaches to Kurban Said's Ali and Nino

Author : Carl Niekerk
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139907
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Kurban Said's Ali and Nino written by Carl Niekerk and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of diverse approaches to it.

Inferno in Chechnya

Author : Brian Glyn Williams
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611688019
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Inferno in Chechnya written by Brian Glyn Williams and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book to answer this riddle by tracing the roots of the Boston attack to the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. Brian Glyn Williams describes the tragic history of the bombers' war-devastated homeland-including tsarist conquest and two bloody wars with post-Soviet Russia that would lead to the rise of Vladimir Putin-showing how the conflict there influenced the rise of Europe's deadliest homegrown terrorist network. He provides a historical account of the Chechens' terror campaign in Russia, documents their growing links to Al Qaeda and radical Islam, and describes the plight of the Chechen diaspora that ultimately sent two Chechens to Boston. Inferno in Chechnya delivers a fascinating and deeply tragic story that has much to say about the historical and ethnic roots of modern terrorism.