Endgame : Britain, Russia, and the final struggle for central Asia

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Label

Endgame : Britain, Russia, and the final struggle for central Asia

Title remainder

Britain, Russia, and the final struggle for central Asia

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Siegel

Creator

• Siegel, Jennifer, (Jennifer L)
• Siegel, Jennifer, (Jennifer L.)

Subject

• Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1901-1936
• Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Russia
• Asia, Central
• Russia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
• Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1894-1917
• Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918

Language

eng

Summary

By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, suspicious of Imperial Germany, decided to stabilize their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia ¡ the "Great Game" ¡ with reapprochement. But as Jennifer Siegel here demonstrates, reality in the field told a different story. The momentum of imperial rivalry, spiced by oil and railway development, could not be arrested. By 1914 Britain and Russia were on the brink of war with each other to be saved only by the outbreak of World War I. This is a groundbreaking study based on hitherto unseen archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as original research in London

Cataloging source

UKM

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D378

LC item number

.S52 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography