01176nam a22001577a 4500 20220324112808.0 220224b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978019539395 DK511.C3K56 The ghost of freedom: a history of the caucasus / Charles King. New York: Oxford university press; 2008. ix,291p.: ills and diagrams, 24cm. Includes Index Contents :Introduction: Nature's bulwark -- Empires and boundaries -- Imperial dreams -- Kings and khans -- Life on the line -- Ermolov comes -- Rules and resistance -- The murid way -- Raiding and retribution -- The imam and the viceroy -- The tribes that remain -- The imaginary Caucasus -- Inventing the highlander -- Prisoners,superflous men,and mopingers -- Convoy to tiflis -- There is something to be gained on the heights -- Eros and the circassian -- Nations and revolutions -- Bazaar and boomtown -- The uses of war -- Phantom republics -- Exiles -- Cleansing -- Time of troubles -- Brothers and rivals -- Land and struggle -- Whose nations?whos states? -- The tragic north -- Conclusion: Continental shift lcc BK 8798 16298 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2022-02-24 DK511.C3K56 9108/557/22 2022-02-24 00:00:00 1 2022-02-24 BK