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The Great Game, 1856–1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia
Evgeny Sergeev
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Description for The Great Game, 1856–1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 552 pages, 7, 5 black & white illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FC; HBJD; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 768.
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of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and guidebooks from unpublished and less studied primary sources in Russian, British, Indian, Georgian, Uzbek, and Turkmen archives.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. ... Read more
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of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and guidebooks from unpublished and less studied primary sources in Russian, British, Indian, Georgian, Uzbek, and Turkmen archives.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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421415574
SKU
V9781421415574
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About Evgeny Sergeev
Evgeny Sergeev is a professor of history and head of the Twentieth Century: Socio-Political and Economic Problems Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of World History. He is author of Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904-05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea. He was a short-term scholar at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute ... Read more
Reviews for The Great Game, 1856–1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia
[Sergeev] is able to move beyond the Game to its players, to the architects of strategy. The reader is at the table with senior policy-makers, listening to them balance possibilities and practicalities within the structures of shifting relations between Russia and Britain.
Peter Skinner Foreword Reviews An important contribution to the field and offers valuable insights into its complexities. ... Read more
Peter Skinner Foreword Reviews An important contribution to the field and offers valuable insights into its complexities. ... Read more