The Great Game 1856-1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia 9781421408095

The New Great Game: China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform 9780804797641

China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this

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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia [Paperback ed.] 1568360223, 9781568360225

For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war

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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia 9780674293519

Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Penin

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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia 9781848544772

Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has been hailed as esse

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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia 0674983394, 9780674983397

A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought

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Alexander the Great and Bactria. The Formation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia 9004086129

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The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East 9781617195891, 1617195898

The main goal of this study is to present data from Syriac and Christian Arabic writers, and some other sources, dealing

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Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925 186064404X, 9781860644047

Universal conscription has been the main form of military recruitment in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Central Asia an

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Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia 1775–1925 9780755611836, 9781860644047

Universal conscription has been the main form of military recruitment in the 19th and 20th centuries. In central Asia an

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The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East: A New Document 9781463226930

The main goal of this study is to present data from Syriac and Christian Arabic writers, and some other sources, dealing

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