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  • Book Review: The Ghost Of Freedom: A History Of The Caucasus

    THE GHOST OF FREEDOM: A HISTORY OF THE CAUCASUS
    Harry Willems

    Library Journal Reviews
    February 1, 2008

    King, Charles. The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus.

    Oxford Univ. Feb. 2008. c.320p. photogs. maps. index. ISBN
    978-0-19-517775-6 . $29.95. HIST

    The Caucasus region, which now consists of Georgia, Armenia,
    Azerbaijan, and parts of Russia, has a complex history, not least
    owing to its interactions with the surrounding nations of Europe and
    the Middle East and its tremendously diverse ethnic populations. One
    can be familiar with the history of Russia without really understanding
    the long and complex history of the Caucasus. King (Romanian studies,
    international affairs and government, Georgetown Univ.; The Black
    Sea: A History ) unravels the region's history from the start of
    Russia's involvement in the region under Ivan the Terrible to the
    present. Recently, a few books have been published about the Caucasus
    (e.g., Nicholas Griffin's Caucasus: A Journey to the Land Between
    Christianity and Islam ), but King's is the most comprehensive,
    weaving in the history of all the events from the past two centuries
    that shaped czarist, Soviet, and Russian relations with the region. He
    briefly discusses the Armenian genocide, a label that Turkey has
    objected to, which has recently been discussed in the U.S.

    Congress. King mainly raises it so as to question whether it was
    indeed a genocide as we define that today. This book would be a wise
    pick for any scholarly institution.-Harry Willems, Park City P.L., KS
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