Charles King, “The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus” (Oxford UP, 2008)

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
05/03/2010 1h 11min
Charles King, “The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus” (Oxford UP, 2008)

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There’s a concept I find myself coming back to again and again–“speciation.” It’s drawn from the vocabulary of evolutionary biology and means, roughly, the process by which new species arise. Speciation occurs when a species must adapt to new circumstances; the more new circumstances, the more new species. Thus one...
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