The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Hopkirk, 1990)
1853 · Resource
Peter Hopkirk on the 19th-century imperial rivalry between Britain and Russia in Central Asia.
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- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
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