History of the Caucasus Volume 2

I. A Fragmented Identity: An Introduction to Contemporary Ethnic and Political Conditions in the Caucasus II. In the Wake of International Great-Power Politics 1.The Golden Age of Georgia 2.The Mongol incursions and supremacy III. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia 1.Semi-independent Armenian warlords and Muslim Armenian viziers 2.The Rubenids of Cilicia: From principality to kingdom 3.The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia IV. The South Caucasus under Turkmen, Ottoman and Iranian Safavid Domination 1.Georgia and the devastations of Timur-e Lang 2.The partition of Georgia Excursus: The Armenian catholicosate's return to Etchmiadzin and a renewed schism 3.The South Caucasus as battleground for eight Ottoman-Safavid wars 4.The South Caucasus under Safavid rule Excursus: The Armenian Mekhitarist congregation 5.A brief reunification of Kartli and Kakheti and the foundation of independent khanates V. First Russian Advances into the North Caucasus 1. The defence pact of 1557 between Kabarda and Russia 2. The Cossacks and the first Russian military lines 3. Mongol Kalmyks in the North-Eastern Caucasus VI. The Caucasus under Russian Rule 1.From the Treaty of Georgievsk (1783) to the annexation of Georgia in 1801 2.Iran's interlude with Napoleon and Russia's conquest of the South Caucasian khanates and sultanates 3.The resistance of North Caucasian mountain peoples 3.1Yermolov's first offensives north of the Greater Caucasus 3.2The jihad of the imams 3.3The conquest, resettlement and expulsion of the Circassians 4.Russian administration and the rise of nationalism 5.The Russian conquest of former West Armenia 1877-78 Excursus: Oil-drilling at Baku and the Nobel brothers 6.The emergence of nationalist and social-revolutionary parties, Armenian massacres and ethnic unrest 6.1Armenian nationalist and socialist parties in the Russian and Ottoman empires 6.2Georgian socialists 6.3Pan-Turkism and socialism in the South Caucasian Muslim provinces VII. A Short-Lived Independence and Foreign

Christoph Baumer is a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and the Caucasus - has written many well-received books in the fields of history, religion, archaeology and travel. These include The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity (2006), Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia (2008), China's Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism (2011) and the seminal History of Central Asia in four volumes (2012-2018), all published by I.B.Tauris. Dr Baumer is President of the Society for the Exploration of EurAsia, Senior Research Fellow at the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Explorers' Club, New York, the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal, awarded to him by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in 2015.