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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181119134618.0 |
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Transcribing agency |
ACKU |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
D378. |
Item number |
R595 1875 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, Sir, |
Dates associated with a name |
1810-1895. |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
England and Russia in the East : |
Remainder of title |
a series of papers on the political and geographical condition of Central Asia / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Major-Gen Sir Henry Rawlinson. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
John Murray, Albemarle Street, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1875. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xvi, 393 pages : |
Other physical details |
maps ; |
Dimensions |
30 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
“Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810–95) was a British scholar and diplomat, best known for his contributions to the field of Assyriology. In 1827 he entered the service of the East India Company, where he held a variety of posts. He was involved in the reorganization of the Persian army in 1833‒39 and in 1843 was appointed political agent of the East India Company in Turkish Arabia. He later served as consul general in Baghdad, where, in addition to his official duties, he took part in archeological expeditions and worked at deciphering Akkadian cuneiform tablets. He returned to England in 1856 and in 1858 was elected to Parliament as a member of the Conservative Party. He served briefly as British minister to Persia, where he was known for his uncompromising attitude towards Russia, which he regarded as a growing threat to the security of British India and to British interests in the region. England and Russia in the East, published in 1875, is a collection of five essays by Rawlinson about Persian, Afghan, and Central Asian affairs, three of which are reprints of articles that appeared in the Calcutta Review and the Quarterly Review, and two of which were written for this volume. Rawlinson focuses on the perceived Russian threat and argues that “in the event of Russia’s approach to Herát, it will be indispensable to the safety of India that we should resume our military occupation of Western Afghanistán….” Chapter four of the work, “Central Asia,” is the most scholarly and least polemical part of the book. It offers a comprehensive overview of the geography of the entire region, which Rawlinson defines as located “between the Russian empire to the North and the British-Indian Empire to the south, including, perhaps, a portion of the Persian province of Khorassán to the west, and Chinese Turkestán to the east.” Rawlinson provides a wealth of detail about the region, drawn from all of the leading British, Russian, German, and French authorities as well as knowledge derived from his own travels and observations. Regional treaties dating from 1853 to 1874 are included in the appendix in whole or in extract”—copied from website. |
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General note |
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Linkage |
Includes bibliographical references. |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Contents: I.-II. Our political relations with Persia. (Reprinted, with notes, from "Calcutta review," vol. XII, art. I, 1849)--III. The Russians in Central Asia. (Reprinted, with notes, from the "Quarterly review" for October, 1865. no. 236, p. 529)--IV. Central Asia. (Reprinted, with notes, from the "Quarterly review" for October, 1866. no. 240, p. 461)--V. Memorandum on the Central Asian question, dated July, 1868.--VI. The later phases of the Central Asian question. |
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
Language note |
English |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Eastern question (Central Asia) |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Russia – Foreign relations – Asia, Central. |
856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Electronic format type |
PDF |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_r595_1875">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_r595_1875</a> |
Public note |
Scanned for ACKU. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Monograph |
Call number prefix |
azu_acku_d378_r595_1875 |