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Author : Henry William Carless Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCAL:$B42733
Author : Edward Ingram
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015026638695
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848544772
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today.
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Afghan Wars
ISBN : 0192802321
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. When play firstbegan the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.This book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horsetraders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence, and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some neverreturned.
Author : Prof. H.W.C.. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Asia
ISBN : OCLC:1243918059
Author : Riaz Dean
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789353057077
The Great Game raged through the wilds of Central Asia during the nineteenth century, as Imperial Russia and Great Britain jostled for power. Tsarist armies gobbled up large tracts of Turkestan, advancing inexorably towards their ultimate prize, India. These rivals understood well that the first need of an army in a strange land is a reliable map, prompting desperate efforts to explore and chart out uncharted regions. Two distinct groups would rise to this challenge: a band of army officers, who would become the classic Great Game players; and an obscure group of natives employed by the Survey of India, known as the Pundits. While 'the game' played out, a self-educated cartographer named William Lambton began mapping the Great Arc, attempting to measure the actual shape of the Indian subcontinent. The Great Arc would then lauded as 'one of the most stupendous works in the whole history of science'. Meanwhile, the Pundits, travelling entirely on foot and with meagre resources, would be among the first to enter Tibet and reveal the mysteries of its forbidden capital, Lhasa. Featuring forgotten, enthralling episodes of derring-do combined with the most sincere efforts to map India's boundaries, Mapping the Great Game is the thrilling story of espionage and cartography which shrouded the Great Game and helped map a large part of Asian as we know it today.
Author : Robert Thomas Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415316421
second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which effectively marked the end of the confrontation.
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:605996854
Author : John MacNeill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Eastern question (Central Asia)
ISBN : 0415316456
second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which effectively marked the end of the confrontation.
Author : Evgeny Sergeev
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1421415577
The Great Game sheds new light on Asia’s political influence on Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL 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.
Author : Karl Ernest Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 0349113661
The struggle to control Central Asia that involved Russia and Great Britain was called the Great Game by many. This volume is an account of a fascinating period of history with many contemporary resonances.
Author : Henry William Carless Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1314448545
Author : Assef Ashraf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009361552
Uses political practices and a socially-oriented approach to explain imperial formation under the Qajars in early nineteenth-century Iran.
Author : Martin Ewans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415316391
second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which effectively marked the end of the confrontation.
Author : Maximilian Drephal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030239602
This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in the wider remit of Anglo-Afghan relations and diplomacy from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the networks of family and profession that established the institution’s colonial foundations and its connections across South Asia and the Indian Ocean. The study presents the British Legation as a late imperial institution, which materialised colonialism's governmental practices in the age of independence. Ultimately, it demonstrates the continuation of asymmetries forged in the Anglo-Afghan encounter and shows how these were transformed into instances of diplomatic inequality in the realm of international relations. Approaching diplomacy through the themes of performance, the body and architecture, and in the context of knowledge transfers, this work offers new perspectives on international relations through a cultural history of diplomacy.