Orientalism and Empire. North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917

Church in Imeretia; from Kavkazskii Kalendar’ na 1853 god (Tiflis, 1852) Restoration Society church in Svanetia; from Platonov, ...

Khevsur armed for battle, artist S. Zhivotovskii; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz 21737_mm.book Page xiv Monday, January 21, 200 ...

Mountain Georgian family; photograph in possession of author Georgians; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz 21737_mm.book Page xv Mo ...

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Mountain Georgians; photograph in possession of author “The Caucasus: A Mountaineer,” artist Selivanov; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi ...

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Lezgin; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz Monument to Bariatinskii, Gunib; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz 21737_mm.book Page xix ...

Mountain road in Dagestan, artist S. Zhivotovskii; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz Ossetians and Tushin, artist N. Ol’shanskii; ...

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Meeting of General Kliuke von Kliugenau with Shamil, artist G.G. Gagarin; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz Capture of Shamil, 25 ...

Murder of Prince Tsitsianov in Baku, artist M. Andreev; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz Presentation of the captured Shamil to B ...

Grand Prince Mikhail Nikolaevich; from Kaspari, Pokorennyi Kavkaz Adol’f Petrovich Berzhe; from Bakradze, Arkheoloqicheskoe pute ...

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Orientalism and Empire North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845–19 17 austin jersild McGill-Queen’s Unive ...

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Contents Prefaceix Illustrations and mapsxiii 1 The Discourse of Empire 3 2 Conquest and Exile 12 3 Orthodoxy: The Society for t ...

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