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050 00 $aDS329.4$b.M47 1999
082 00 $a958$221
100 1 $aMeyer, Karl E.$q(Karl Ernest),$d1937-
245 10 $aTournament of shadows :$bthe race for empire in Central Asia /$cby Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.
246 30 $aRace for empire in Central Asia
260 $aWashington, DC :$bCounterpoint,$c1999.
263 $a9911
300 $axxv, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: The View from the Khyber --$gCh. 1.$tThe Horse Doctor --$gCh. 2.$tA River Too Far --$gCh. 3.$tThe Road to Kabul --$gCh. 4.$t"Here Comes the Messenger" --$gCh. 5.$tThe Russians Are Coming --$gCh. 6.$tThe Raj Imperiled --$gCh. 7.$tBloomsbury's War --$gCh. 8.$tHer Majesty's Indian Secret Service --$gCh. 9.$t"A Carbine in One Hand, A Whip in the Other" --$gCh. 10.$tMystical Imperialism --$gCh. 11.$tEmissary to the White Tsar --$gCh. 12.$tCurzon's Hour --$gCh. 13.$tThe Desert Wanderer --$gCh. 14.$tThe Spoils of Serindia --$gCh. 15.$tThe Last of the "Foreign Devils" --$gCh. 16.$tFirst Encounters of an American Kind --$gCh. 17.$tOn the Playing Fields of Lhasa --$gCh. 18.$tThe "Shambhala Project" --$gCh. 19.$tThe Guru --$gCh. 20.$tThe Cousins Discover Tibet --$gCh. 21.$tSwastikas to Lhasa --$gCh. 22.$tHigh Mischief --$tEpilogue: The Owl of Minerva.
520 1 $a"The world's oldest established imperial rivalry had its start during the Napoleonic age when British agents came upon the tracks of Russian rivals in snowbound Tibet, and then again in mythic Bokhara, deep in Central Asia. Was the Tsar planning to invade India, or even worse, was Russia bent on global dominion? To foil these real or imagined schemes, the British twice invaded Afghanistan, and in 1904 dispatched an army to Lhasa to check Tsarist designs on Tibet."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"This was classic Great Game, which took on fresh life after the Russian Revolution and as Americans joined in, and which continues today in the covert struggle for mastery of the Caspian Sea and its oil riches. The whole story is here retold in a flowing narrative crammed with revealing detail, drawing on newly opened archives and recent research, a canvas filled with memorable men and women, taking the reader over Himalayan passes and through the world's deadliest deserts."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aAsia, Central$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001930
651 0 $aAsia, Central$xRelations$zGreat Britain.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zAsia, Central.
651 0 $aAsia, Central$xRelations$zSoviet Union.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xRelations$zAsia, Central.
700 1 $aBrysac, Shareen Blair.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97850999
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852 00 $bbar$hDS329.4$i.M47 1999
852 00 $bglx$hDS329.4$i.M47 1999