Afghanistan : (Record no. 41753)

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control field OSt
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20181126141824.0
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency ACKU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Geographic area code a-af---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number D378.
Item number L966 1910
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lyons, Gervais, 1875-.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Afghanistan :
Remainder of title the buffer state : great Britain and Russian in Central Asia : a comprehensive treatise on the entire Central Asian question with two maps specially prepared from the most recent information /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Captain Gervais Lyons ; with an introductory note by Sir Reginald C. Hart.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London ; Madras :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Higginbotham & Co. ; Luzac & Co.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1910.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent vii, 232, x pages :
Other physical details maps ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note “Afghanistan: The Buffer State. Great Britain and Russia in Central Asia is an overview of Anglo-Russian rivalry and the perceived Russian threat to British India, written by a former officer and Russian-language interpreter in the Indian Army. It is intended as a succinct introduction to a complex subject and provides insight into a certain type of British imperial thinking that prevailed right up until World War I. Chapter one discusses the importance of India to the British Empire. British objectives, the book argues, must be to safeguard “all lines of communication connecting India with the Mother Country” and to safeguard India itself. To achieve these objectives, Great Britain “must so direct her policy that Persia, Afghanistan, and Western China, shall remain independent and undivided, and, if possible, more prone to British influence than that of any other power.” Also essential were keeping the Bosporus and Dardanelles “always closed to Russia” and preventing Russia from ever obtaining a port in the Persian Gulf. Chapter two is an overview of past invasions of India, from the time of the ancient Assyrians and Persians to that of Nadir Shah in the 18th century. Chapters three and four deal with the Russian presence and policies in Central Asia. Chapter five covers the “theater of operations” in which an Anglo-Russian conflict might be fought. Chapter six deals with the role of states or principalities that would influence the course of any such conflict, most importantly, Afghanistan but also Baluchistan, Tibet, Kashmir, and China. The concluding chapter discusses the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907, which reaffirmed the predominant influence of Great Britain in Afghanistan. Published both in London and Madras (present-day Chennai, India), the book contains two detailed fold-out maps illustrating the Russian “advance” into Central Asia. The book has little to say about Germany, with which, ironically, Britain would be at war (in alliance with Russia) within a few years”—copied from website.
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.
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Language note English
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Eastern question (Central Asia).
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Military readiness.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Afghanistan.
Geographic name Afghanistan – Boundaries.
Geographic name India – Defenses.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_l966_1910">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_l966_1910</a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_d378_l966_1910
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 28/01/2018   D378.L966 1910 3ACKU000506203 28/01/2018 28/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.