Georgien

Geographie. Geschichte. Wirtschaft

By (author) Jörg Stadelbauer

Book cover: Georgien

Extent: 524 pages

Publisher: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Subjects: Business & Economics, Earth & Life Sciences 

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(July 2024)

ISBN: 9783752007923

6.69 x 9.49 inches

Price: $147.00

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PDF (Published)

(July 2024)

ISBN: 9783752002973

Price: $123.00

Georgia fascinates with its diversity: between the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus peaks, between rain-soaked woodlands and dry steppes, between lush cultivated vegetation and barren pastures, there are as many variations as there are between the lively capital Tbilisi and remote village settlements, between the winners of the post-Soviet transformation and impoverished small farmers, between dynamic tourist centres and the relics of defunct industrial enterprises. It is a country whose historical experiences include inner unity, but also disintegration into small territorial dominions and foreign rule, a country that proudly preserves its own traditions, but is also open to modern cultural trends. And a country that is still searching for its future between powerful individual personalities and parliamentary democracy.


Georgien fasziniert durch seine Vielfalt: Zwischen Schwarzmeerkuste und Kaukasusgipfeln, zwischen regenfeuchten Waldlandern und trockenen Steppen, zwischen uppiger Kulturvegetation und kargen Weidelandern bestehen ahnlich viele Variationen wie zwischen der lebhaften Hauptstadt Tbilisi und entlegenen Dorfsiedlungen, zwischen Gewinnern der postsowjetischen Transformation und verarmten Kleinbauern, zwischen dynamischen Tourismuszentren und Relikten untergegangener Industriebetriebe. Es ist ein Land, dessen geschichtliche Erfahrungen innere Geschlossenheit, aber auch Zerfall in kleine Territorialherrschaften und Fremdherrschaften umfassen, ein Land, das mit Stolz seine eigenen Traditionen bewahrt, sich aber auch modernen Kulturstromungen offnet. Und ein Land, das seine Zukunft zwischen wirkmachtigen Einzelpersonlichkeiten und parlamentarischer Demokratie noch sucht.

Jörg Stadelbauer, born in 1944, studied geography, history and Latin philology at the University of Freiburg. He was awarded his doctorate in 1972 with a study on railway construction in Turkmenistan and habilitated in 1979 with a thesis on the agricultural geography of South Caucasia. After being appointed to a temporary professorship and receiving a Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Foundation, he was appointed full professor at Mainz in 1987. In 1991, he accepted a full professorship for cultural geography and regional studies at the University of Freiburg. He took statutory retirement in 2009. He held a deputy professorship in Tübingen and guest professorships in Basel, Berlin (Humboldt University), Bern and Moscow. His scientific work has focussed on agricultural, urban, transport and political geography of the Soviet Union and its successor states, as well as on the historical geography and regional studies of south-western Germany and eastern France.

  • By (author) Jörg Stadelbauer