Endgame : Britain, Russia, and the final struggle for central Asia / Jennifer Siegel.

Author
Siegel, Jennifer (Jennifer L.) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press, 2002.
Description
xviii, 273 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.

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    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-268) and index.
    Contents
    • The Great Game and the 1907 Agreement
    • Triumph or tribulation? The realities of the Anglo-Russian relationship: 1907-8
    • 'Old designs under a new cover'?: 1909
    • Conflicting motivations and the drift towards discord: 1910
    • The strangling of Anglo-Russian foreign policy: 1911
    • Amicable accord or impending breach?: 1912
    • 'Towards a revision of the Anglo-Russian Agreement': 1913
    • The death of the Anglo-Russian Agreement: 1914.
    ISBN
    • 1850433712
    • 9781850433712
    LCCN
    2002512835
    OCLC
    47356071
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