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The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia / Peter Hopkirk.
LIBRA - Special DS329.4 .H67 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopkirk, Peter.
- Series:
- Kodansha globe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Great Britain.
- Central Asia.
- Soviet Union.
- Asia, Central--Politics and government.
- Asia, Central.
- Politics and government.
- Asia, Central--Relations--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Relations--Asia, Central.
- Asia, Central--Relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Relations--Asia, Central.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 565 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Tokyo : Kodansha International, 1994.
- Summary:
- The Great Game was the epic stand-off between the two superpowers of the nineteenth century--Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia--for the riches of India and the East. Based on meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, Peter Hopkirk's immensely readable account covers the history at the core of today's geopolitics. Photos and maps.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-542).
- ISBN:
- 1568360223
- OCLC:
- 30999160
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