The Great Game, 1856-1907 : Russo-British relations in Central and East Asia / Evgeny Sergeev.
2013
DK67.5.G7 S4413 2013 (Mapit)
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The Great Game, 1856-1907 : Russo-British relations in Central and East Asia / Evgeny Sergeev.
Uniform Title
Bolʹshai͡a igra, 1856-1907. English
ISBN
9781421408095
1421408090
1421408090
Published
Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Language
English
Description
xix, 530 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
DK67.5.G7 S4413 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
958/.03
Summary
"The Great Game, 1856-1907 presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and guidebooks from unpublished and less studied primary sources in Russian, British, Indian, Georgian, Uzbek, and Turkmen archives. His efforts amplify our knowledge of Russia by considering the important influences of local Asian powers. Ultimately, this book disputes the characterization of the Great Game as a proto-Cold War between East and West. By relating it to other regional actors, Sergeev creates a more accurate view of the game's impact on later wars and on the shape of post-World War I Asia." -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-514) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: reconsidering Anglo-Russian relations in Asia
The prologue of the Great Game
Russia's challenge and Britain's response, 1856-1864
The road to the Oxus, 1864-1873
The climax of the Great Game, 1874-1885
Strategic stalemate, 1886-1903
The end of the game
Epilogue: reverberations of the Great Game.
The prologue of the Great Game
Russia's challenge and Britain's response, 1856-1864
The road to the Oxus, 1864-1873
The climax of the Great Game, 1874-1885
Strategic stalemate, 1886-1903
The end of the game
Epilogue: reverberations of the Great Game.