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Alexander Mikaberidze

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Alexander Mikaberidze
Born(1978-01-27)27 January 1978(age 46)
Aktobe,Kazakh SSR,USSR
Alma materFlorida State Univ.Ph.D, 2003
Tbilisi State UniversityJ.D, 1999
Occupation(s)historian, author and academic

Alexander Mikaberidze(Georgian:ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე;born 27 January 1978) is aGeorgianlawyer, author and historian who specializes inNapoleonic studies.He is a full professor of history and social sciences atLouisiana State University in Shreveport,where he holds the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair for the Curatorship of the James Smith Noel Collection, one of the largest private collections of antiquarian books, prints, and maps in the United States.[1]

Education and career[edit]

Mikaberidze was born in 1978 inAktobe,Kazakh SSR,where his parents were working.[2][3]In 1990, they returned to theGeorgian SSR,which gained independence in 1991.[4]

He graduated fromTbilisi State Universityin 1999 with a degree in international law. From 1996 to 2000, he worked with theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia,where he handled human rights issues and relations with theCouncil of Europe.[1]

Napoleonic studies[edit]

Mikaberidze is a specialist on Napoleonic studies and the Napoleonic era.[5]In 1999, Mikaberidze was one of the founding members of the Napoleonic Society of Georgia, dedicated to the study of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras (1799-1815).[6]In 2000, he moved to the United States to devote himself toNapoleonic studies.Mikaberidze graduated with a Ph.D. in history in 2003 from the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution atFlorida State University.He has taught at Florida State University andMississippi State University,and lectured on strategy and policy at theU.S. Naval War College.Since 2007, he has been at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.[1]

Mikaberidze has been the author, editor, and translator of over two dozen books and textbooks. His booksThe Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815andThe Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzovwon the Literary Award of the International Napoleonic Society for 2005 and 2007, respectively. His book,The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History,published by Oxford University Press in 2020, won the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award in 2021. His latest book,Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace,published by Oxford University Press in 2022, won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award in 2023.

He is on the editorial boards of the international journalNapoleonica La Revue,"an online review which aims to promote research in the history of the First and Second French Empires".[7]Napoleonica La Revue,"published by theFondation Napoléon,is academic, multidisciplinary, international and peer-reviewed ".[7]He has served the editor-in-chief of the periodicalThe Napoleonic Scholarshipand an editor of the Select Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.[1]

For his contributions to Napoleonic studies, Mikaberidze has been elected a Fellow of theRoyal Historical Societyof the United Kingdom, and awarded theInternational Napoleonic Society's Legion of Merit Medal andLa Renaissance Française'sMédaille d'or du Rayonnement Culturel.[1][8]

History of Islam[edit]

Alexander Mikaberidze editedConflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia,a two-volume encyclopedia covering the military and politicalhistory of Islam,and published in 2011.

The encyclopedia contains more than 600 entries from dozens of contributors, as well as a glossary, maps and photographs.[9]

Notable works[edit]

  • (Editor) The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023.
  • (Editor) The Memoirs of a Russian Artilleryman. The Russian Campaign of 1812.London: Pen&Sword. 2023.
  • (Editor) Confronting Napoleon: Levin von Bennigsen's Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807. Volume I - Pultusk to Eylau.London: Helion. 2022.ISBN9781915070449.
  • Las Guerras Napoleónicas. Una historia global.Madrid: Desperta Ferro. 2022.ISBN9788412483055.
  • Napoleon's Hollow Victory: Berezina 1812.London: Osprey. 2022.ISBN9781472850188.
  • Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace.Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022.ISBN9780197546734.
  • ნაპოლეონის მარშლები [Napoleon's Marshals].Tbilisi: Artanuji Press. 2022.
  • Les guerres napoléoniennes: Une histoire globale.Paris: Flammarion. 2020.
  • The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History.London: Oxford University Press. 2020.ISBN978-0-19-995106-2.
  • ნაპოლეონი: 51 კითხვა-პასუხი [51 Questions about Napoleon].Tbilisi: Artanuji Press. 2020.
  • ქართველები უცხოელთა თვალით (XV-XVII საუკუნეები) [Georgians through Foreign Eyes (XV-XVII centuries)].Tbilisi:Artanuji Press.2018.ISBN978-9941-478-15-4.
  • საქართველო უცხოელთა თვალით (XV-XVII საუკუნეები) [Georgia through Foreign Eyes (XV-XVII centuries].Tbilisi:Artanuji Press.2018.ISBN978-9941-478-26-0.
  • უცხოეთში დაკარგული ქართველები [Georgians Lost in the Foreign Lands].Tbilisi:Artanuji Press.2017.ISBN978-9941-463-51-8.
  • Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1807.London: Frontline Books. 2015.ISBN978-1-84832-762-7.
  • The Burning of Moscow: Napoleon's Trial By Fire 1812.London: Pen & Sword. 2014.ASINB00OZ3HS2G.
  • Atrocities, Massacres and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia.Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 2013.ISBN978-1-59884-925-7.
  • Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1814.London: Frontline Books. 2013.ISBN978-1-84832-707-8.
  • Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1812.London: Frontline Books. 2012.ISBN978-1-84832-635-4.
  • Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia.ABC-CLIO. 2011.ISBN978-1-59884-337-8.
  • The A to Z of Georgia.Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press. 2010.ISBN978-0-8108-7207-3.
  • The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape.London: Pen & Sword. 2010.ISBN978-1-84415-920-8.
  • The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzov.London: Pen & Sword. 2007.ISBN978-1-84415-603-0.
  • Historical Dictionary of Georgia.Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press. 2007.ISBN978-0-8108-5580-9.
  • The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815.New York: Savas Beatie. 2007.ISBN978-1-932714-02-9.
  • ადამიანის უფლებებისა და ძირითადი თავისებურებების დაცვა ევროპის საბჭოს ფარგლებში: ადამიანის უფლებათა ევროპული სასამართლო[Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms within the Council of Europe Framework:European Court on Human Rights],Judge's LibrarySeries. Tbilisi: GCI. 2000.

References[edit]

  1. ^abcde"Alex Mikaberidze".Louisiana State University in Shreveport.Retrieved27 February2015.
  2. ^"Mikaberidze, Alexander".Library of Congress.Retrieved27 February2015.
  3. ^Alexander Mikaberidze.«Лев русской армии»[Lion of the Russian Army] (in Russian). Museum.ru. Archived fromthe originalon 20 April 2015.Retrieved27 February2015.
  4. ^ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე[Alexander Mikaberidze].National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.Retrieved11 February2016.
  5. ^ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძის წიგნებით ამერიკულ უნივერსიტეტებში ასწავლიან.Kviris Palitra.29 September 2011.Retrieved11 February2016.
  6. ^"About".The Napoleonic Society of Georgia.Retrieved27 February2015.
  7. ^ab"Journal Napoleonica. La Revue | Cairn International Edition".Cairn-int.info.Retrieved2022-11-30.
  8. ^Monaselidze, Eter (4 February 2014).„კადნიერი “ქართველი ახალგაზრდა, რომლის წიგნებით ამერიკის უნივერსიტეტებში ასწავლიან.Sazogadoeba.Ge.Retrieved11 February2016.
  9. ^Lougen, Colleen (2012)."Sources: Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia".Reference & User Services Quarterly.51(3): 292.doi:10.5860/rusq.51n3.292.

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