Rayfield, Donald,  1942- <br/><br/>
Edge of empires :  a history of Georgia / 
 History of Georgia. 
Donald Rayfield. 
 - London :  Reaktion Books,  2012. 
 - 479 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- The emergence of the Kartvelians -- The origins of the kingdom of Kartli -- Conversion -- The Arab conquest -- Unification -- Davit the builder -- Demetre and Giorgi III -- Queen Tamar -- Mongol invasion -- The fractured state -- Timur Lang and the destruction of Georgia -- Fraticide -- King Teimuraz I -- Teimuraz dispossessed -- The eighteenth century -- The Russian conquest of Kartli-Kakhetia -- King Solomon's end -- Vice-regency -- Reaction and revolution -- Independence -- Soviet annexation -- After Stalin -- Independence restored. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780230306 1780230303 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Georgia (Republic)--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DK675.4  / .R39 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>947.58