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The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia Lost Their Grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan - Hardcover

Campbell, Heather A.

 
9781526775801: The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia Lost Their Grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526775808 ISBN 13: 9781526775801
Verlag: Pen & Sword Military, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The post-First World War period was pivotal in global history, international relations and geopolitics. And no more than in South Asia. where for decades the 'Great Game' in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires - Britain and Russia - had dominated international relations. But with the advent of Communism in Russia and growing nationalism and pan-Islamism in Afghanistan, Persia, and India, Britian's imperial standing was under threat. Faced with these problems, some in the British government, such as Lord Curzon, the dominant imperialist in the British Foreign Office, fell back on what they knew - old patterns of rivalry and high-handedness that characterized the Great Game. Not all, however, agreed with Curzon, and with war in Afghanistan, civil unrest in India, and rising tensions in Persia, those who opposed this Great Game mindset advocated a new way forward for British foreign relations.

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Heather Campbell is an historian and political scientist specializing in British and Russian imperial history, the First World War, British policy in India, Afghanistan and Persia (later Iran), and Imperial and Soviet Russia. She has worked extensively on Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary and principal promoter of the 'Great Game' mindset and policy in South Asia. After her BA in History at the University of Aberdeen, and Diploma in the Russian language at the University of Glasgow, she obtained her MA and completed her PhD on 'Bolshevism, Islamism and Nationalism: Britain's Problems in South Asia' at Queen Mary University of London. She has taught at the School of History at QMUL, lectured on the Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and contributed an impressive article, 'Facing the Wasps' Nest: on the Third Afghan War of 1919 and Afghanistan's Independence in History Today.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Military
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526775808
ISBN 13 
9781526775801
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
210
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