Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924

by Seymour Becker

Book Overview

This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. It shows how Russia's approach developed from one of non-intervention, with the primary aim of preventing British expansion from India into the region, to one of increasing intervention as trade and Russian settlement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415546184
• ISBN13: 9780415546188
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"