". . . the best study in English to date for an understanding of Georgian nationalism." --Religious Studies Review
". . . the standard account of Georgian history in English." --American Historical Review
". . . tour de force research . . . fascinating reading."...
Presents Georgian history from medieval times to the modern era of civil strife in an independent republic. This work ranges from the ethnogenesis of the Georgians in the first millennium BC, through the period of Russian and Soviet rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...