Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781788310079
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
"Magnificent (and) wondrous." The Spectator

"Rich and illuminating." Literary Review

"Phenomenally accurate." History Today

"Stunning." The Morning Star

"Sweeping." The New European

"A wonderful book." Current World Archaeology

"In a class of its own." The Caspian Post




A landscape of high mountains and narrow valleys stretching from the Black to the Caspian Seas, the Caucasus region has been home to human populations for nearly 2 million years. In this richly illustrated 2-volume series, historian and explorer Christoph Baumer tells the story of the region's history through to the present day. It is a story of encounters between many different peoples, from Scythians, Turkic and Mongol peoples of the East to Greeks and Romans from the West, from Indo-European tribes from the West as well as the East, and to Arabs and Iranians from the South. It is a story of rival claims by Empires and nations and of how the region has become home to more than 50 languages that can be heard within its borders to this very day.


This first volume charts the period from the emergence of the earliest human populations in the region the first known human populations outside Africa - to the Seljuk conquests of 1050CE. Along the way the book charts the development of Neolithic, Iron and Bronze Age cultures, the first recognizable Caucasian state and the arrival of a succession of the great transnational Empires, from the Greeks, the Romans and the Armenian to competing Chris