Central Asia and the Himalayan Kingdoms: The Armies of Asia: (Armies of the Nineteenth Century) - Hardcover

Heath, Ian

9781901543018: Central Asia and the Himalayan Kingdoms: The Armies of Asia: (Armies of the Nineteenth Century)

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ISBN 10: 1901543013 ISBN 13: 9781901543018

Verlag: Foundry Books, 2009

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The collapse of the Soviet Union and the coming to power of anti-Western regimes in Iran and Iraq have brought the territories covered in this book back to prominence after decades of relative quiet. During the nineteenth century these territories which are now part of or border on Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China were the main theater of the Great Game, in which British and Russian agents competed for influence over the native princes.

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19th century military organisation, warfare dress and weapons.

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VerlagFoundry Books
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ISBN 10 1901543013
ISBN 13 9781901543018
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Armies of the nineteenth century : Asia. Vol. 1, Central Asia and the Himalayan kingdoms

Ian Heath

Verlag: Nottingham : Foundry Books (2009)

ISBN 10: 1901543013 ISBN 13: 9781901543018

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: New. 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm. This volume is probably the very first to examine the 19th-century military history of this remote region, wedged uncomfortably and ultimately terminally between the British, Russian, and Chinese empires: Central Asia s long-established Uzbek states of Bokhara, Kokhand, and Khiva were all destined to submit to the expanding Russian Empire in the 1870s, while the ancient kingdoms of the Himalayas would be contested between the vigorous British Empire and ailing China whose nominal satellites and tributary states they largely were before mostly ending up in British hands. The resultant unrest throughout the region led in turn to the outbreak of rebellion in Chinese Turkestan, and to the brief existence of a new kingdom, Kashgaria, whose leader Yakub Beg was courted by British and Russians alike as they tried respectively to close or open this perceived door into British India s most exposed flank. Of the several native states in existence as the century commenced, only Tibet and Nepal would remain nominally independent as it ended, and free to fight their own wars. This book describes the arms, dress, organisation, and tactics of the armies of all the region s native states during the 19th century, covering Baltistan, Bhutan, Bokhara, Chinese Turkestan, Kashgaria, Kashmir, Khiva, Khokand, Khotan, Kuldja, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Tibet, as well as the nomadic Kirghiz and Turcomans, and provides details of their interaction with the British, Russian, and Chinese empires. Illustrations include 133 drawings of warriors and soldiers, 41 other illustrations, and 12 maps. Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers PGFOU07

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