The Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Alexander Morrison The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people – most of them Muslims – to the Tsar’s domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the conquest to be published for over a hundred years....
The Great Game, 1856–1907
Evgeny Sergeev The Great Game, 1856–1907. Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia “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...
