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1875 (dated) 1 : 554400 Description This is an 1875 Herbert William Wood map of the Khanate of Khiva in modern-day Uzbekistan - issued shortly after the 1873 Russian conquest of Khiva, a defining moment in the Great Game. Coverage extends from the southern coast of the Aral Sea (Lake Aral) south to the Kharesmian Desert. Great attention is paid to the all-important regional river network, particularly the Amu Darya (Oxus). Cities, towns, and villages are labeled, along with hills, lakes, and deserts. The Khanate of KhivaThe Khanate of Khiva was an independent polity in the Amu Darya delta just south of the Aral Sea, active from roughly 1511 to 1920. The Khanate became a Russian protectorate in 1873, when the Tzar launched a massive invasion of Khiva. In 1920, following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Khiva followed course, establishing the Khorezm People s Soviet Republic, itself incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1924. Today the former Khanat ....
The ‘Great Game’ Is Back: Are Americans Ready for Great Power Competition? Great power competition requires visionary spirits, courageous persons who venture into unknown lands on behalf of their country, with confidence in the civilization that produced them. It is simply a different age in American history, a soft age, and it may be that the costs of that competition require a price we are unprepared to pay. The phrase “the great game” was coined by the British spy-soldier-diplomat Arthur Conolly and later immortalized by Rudyard Kipling. Peter Hopkirk’s 1992 book bears the same name and tells the story of the great power competition for Central Asia in the nineteenth century, mainly between the British and Russian empires. ....
CentralAsia-topographicdepot-1873 $7,500.00 Title ÐаÑÑа СÑедней Ðзии. / Map of Central Asia. 1873 (dated) 1 : 4200000 Description This is an impressive large scale 1873 Russian-language map of central Asia compiled by the Imperial Russian Topographic Depot for the 1873 Invasion of Khiva - with manuscript annotations detailing a British spy s travels. Coverage extends from the Black Sea to Nepal, and the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal. The area covered includes the Caspian and Aral Seas, the Persian Gulf, and the modern-day Central Asian nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as parts of Russia, China, and northern India. As such, the map captures the peak of Russian expansionism in Central Asia - highlighting the region that became Russian Turkestan and later Soviet Central Asia. ....