The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia /
"The Great Game" between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Pamirs and Karakorams, in the blazing Kerman and Helmund deserts, and through the caravan towns of the old Silk Road - both powers scra...
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New York :
Kodansha International,
1994.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hopkirk, Peter. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The great game : |b the struggle for empire in central Asia / |c Peter Hopkirk. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Kodansha International, |c 1994. | ||
| 300 | |a xxiv, 565 p., [16] p. de láms. : |b il., mapas, retrs. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a "First published in Great Britain in 1990 as The great game : on secret service in high Asia by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd."--Dorso de portada. | ||
| 504 | |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 527-542) e índice. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a [I] The Beginnings: 1. The Yellow Peril -- 2. Napoleonic Nightmare -- 3. Rehearsal for the Great Game -- 4. The Russian Bogy -- 5. All Roads Lead to India -- 6. The First of the Russian Players -- 7. A Strange Tale of Two Dogs -- 8. Death on the Oxus -- 9. The Barometer Falls -- [II] The Middle Years: 10. 'The Great Game' -- 11. Enter 'Bokhara' Burnes -- 12. The Greatest Fortress in the World -- 13. The Mysterious Vitkevich -- 14. Hero of Herat -- 15. The Kingmakers -- 16. The Race for Khiva -- 17. The Freeing of the Slaves -- 18. Night of the Long Knives -- 19. Catastrophe -- 20. Massacre in the Passes -- 21. The Last Hours of Conolly and Stoddart -- 22. Half-time -- [III] The Climactic Years: 23. The Great Russian Advance Begins -- 24. Lion of Tashkent -- 25. Spies Along the Silk Road -- 26. The Feel of Cold Steel Across His Throat -- 27. 'A Physician from the North' -- 28. Captain Burnaby's Ride to Khiva -- 29. Bloodbath at the Bala Hissar -- 30. The Last Stand of the Turcomans -- 31. To the Brink of War -- 32. The Railway Race to the East -- 33. Where Three Empires Meet -- 34. Flashpoint in the High Pamirs -- 35. The Race for Chitral -- 36. The Beginning of the End -- 37. End-game. | |
| 520 | |a "The Great Game" between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Pamirs and Karakorams, in the blazing Kerman and Helmund deserts, and through the caravan towns of the old Silk Road - both powers scrambling to control access to the riches of India and the East ... In this gripping narrative the recounts a breathtaking tale of espionage and trachery through the actual experiences of its colorful characters. Based on meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, this is the history at the core of today's geopolitics." -- Descripción del editor. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Asia, Central |x Politics and government. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Asia, Central |x Relations |z Soviet Union. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Soviet Union |x Relations |z Asia, Central. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Asia, Central |x Relations |z Great Britain. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Relations |z Asia, Central. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Asia, Central |x Política y gobierno. |2 UDESA | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Asia, Central |x Relaciones |z Unión Soviética. |2 UDESA | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Unión Soviética |x Relaciones |z Asia Central. |2 UDESA | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Asia, Central |x Relaciones |z Gran Bretaña . |2 UDESA | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Gran Bretaña |x Relaciones |z Asia Central. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Eastern question (Central Asia) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Afghan Wars. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Cuestión de Oriente (Asia Central) |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Guerras anglo-afganas. |2 UDESA | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Kodansha globe | |