The Written Word

A sweeping national history written from within, tracing the Adyghe from antiquity to the catastrophe of exile.

De Waal's lucid primer to the whole region — its peoples, wars and unfinished conflicts — in a revised second edition.

Richmond's concise survey of the Circassian homeland across its past, its present and its uncertain future.

Colarusso's celebrated translation of the Caucasian heroic epic, with a new introduction by Adrienne Mayor.

King's sweeping narrative history of the Caucasus — empire, faith and freedom at the meeting point of Russia, Persia and the Ottoman world.

Ascherson's classic meditation on the sea that joined and divided civilisations — Greeks and Scythians, exile and empire, from antiquity to the present.

Essays on the long Russian advance toward the Muslim world and the mountaineers who resisted it.

Longworth's eyewitness account of life among the Circassians during the war years of the 1830s.

Spencer's 1830s voyage down the Danube and round the Black Sea into the Circassian lands.

French consular reports from Odessa, 1836–1840 — Europe watching Circassia at the height of its struggle.

Besleney's political history of the largest Circassian community in the world.

Fortna's biography of Eşref Bey, a Circassian insurgent and special agent in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire.

War, violence and nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk — the diaspora's turbulent passage through the empire's collapse and the birth of the Republic.

Bullough's journeys among the defiant peoples of the Caucasus, from exile to the wars of the present.

Parfitt's award-shortlisted travelogue — a mountain quest through Russia's haunted southern frontier.

Hewitt's contested reassessment of the Georgian–Abkhazian and Georgian–South Ossetian conflicts, argued from deep within the region's languages and history.

The journal of the International Association for the Study of the Caucasus, published by Brill — scholarship across the region's history, politics and societies.

A leading academic journal on the Caucasus and Central Asia — history, politics, culture and the social sciences across the wider region.