The emergence and development of the national question in Georgia, 1801-1921
The period of Georgian history covered by this study, 1801-1921, was one of rapid change, a period in which Georgia was reunited after 400 years of division, regained its independence and then lost it again. It was a period too in which Georgians' emotional attachment to the nation and consciousness of their corporate identity greatly increased. This dissertation examines the various factors that played a part in this development and seeks to explain why, despite the spread of national awareness among all classes and a widespread and manifest concern for national renaissance, that a popular nationalist movement never emerged. It looks first at Georgia's historical development, the emergence in the 11th-13th centuries of a centralised state, Georgians' relations with neighbouring peoples, and the events leading up to the country's incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1801, before going on in chapters two and three to examine the socio-economic factors underlying the acceleration of the country's national integration in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is argued that although the raw material of Georgian nationhood - a common and distinctive language, shared history and cultural traits, and occupation
Parsons, James William Robert
Georgia's historical change
The emergence and development of the national question in Georgia, 1801-1921. The period of Georgian history covered by this study, 1801-1921, was one of rapid change, a period in which Georgia was reunited after 400 years of division, regained its independence and then lost it again. It was a period too in which Georgians' emotional attachment to the nation and consciousness of their corporate identity greatly increased. This dissertation examines the various factors that played a part in this development and seeks to explain why, despite the spread of national awareness among all classes and a widespread and manifest concern for national renaissance, that a popular nationalist movement never emerged. It looks first at Georgia's historical development, the emergence in the 11th-13th centuries of a centralised state, Georgians' relations with neighbouring peoples, and the events leading up to the country's incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1801, before going on in chapters two and three to examine the socio-economic factors underlying the acceleration of the country's national integration in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is argued that although the raw material of Georgian nationhood - a common and distinctive language, shared history and cultural traits, and occupation
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