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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Premises -- 1 Before Manzikert: The Caucasia and the Byzantine Failure -- 2 The Causes of the Crisis -- 3 The Consequences of the Crusade: The Empire of Trebizond -- Chapter 2 North: The Pontic Steppes before the Mongol "Squall" Cumans, Byzantium and Kievan Rus' -- 1 Some Remarks on the Origin of the Cumans -- 2 Early Raids -- 3 The Relationships with Neighbors: Byzantium and Rus' -- Chapter 3 Caucasia, Nomadism and Immigration -- 1 The Cimmerian Bosporus between Byzantium and the Second Nomadic Wave -- 2 Nomad Infiltrations into Georgia and Their Consequences -- 2.1 Peoples of Georgia and Social Organization -- 2.2 The Cumans in Georgia -- 2.3 Nomadism in Georgia: Contrast and Integration -- Chapter 4 Building a People -- 1 The Early Altaic Peoples: Acquisitions and Open Issues -- 2 Ethnogenesis and Nomadism: The Earliest Mutations -- 3 At the Root of Unification -- 4 Further Developments: The Concept of "Nomadic Feudalism" -- 5 The Instrument of the Army and the Realization of Solidarity -- 6 Nomadism and Slavery -- Chapter 5 A New Geography: The Mongol Expansionin the Caucasus and the Azov Basin -- 1 Overview -- 2 Times and Ways of the Western Invasion -- 3 In Pursue of the Sultan: The First Campaign against the Khorazm-Shah and the Invasion of Turkestan -- 4 The First Incursion in Caucasia and the Azov Region (1220-1221) -- 5 The Second Mongol Incursion to the West and the Conquest of Caucasia (1230-1236) -- 6 The Conquest of the Pontic Steppes and Rus' (1236-1242) -- Chapter 6 The Political Consequences of the Mongol Conquests and the Caucasian "Separation" -- 1 Plundering as a First Response -- 2 The Organizational Processes -- 3 The Reorganization of the Territory and the New Caucasian Geography. 4 Caucasia and the Ilkhanate -- 5 The Ulus Jochi -- Chapter 7 The Religious Factor and the Problem of Integration after the Conquest -- 1 Cultural Premises -- 2 The Mongols, Islam, and the Armenian-Georgian Christianity until Ghazan's "Choice" (1220-1295) -- 3 The Ulus Jochi and the Azov Region: A Reassessment of the Influences -- Chapter 8 Population and Coexistence: The Demographic Factor between Conquest and Reconstruction -- 1 Some Remarks on the Demographic Consequences of the Conquests -- 2 The Golden Horde and the Azov Region -- 3 Subcaucasia -- Conclusions: Results and Perspectives -- Bibliography -- Index.
Reconstructing the Mongol invasions, conquest and early government of Caucasia, in the context of the Byzantine and the Central Asian broad political picture.