TY - BOOK ID - 2943640 TI - The heart of Asia : a history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times AU - Skrine, Francis Henry AU - Ross, E. Denison PY - 2004 SN - 0700710175 041551519X 0975309358 9786610281978 1135798028 1280281979 0203641701 113579801X 9780700710171 PB - London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, DB - UniCat KW - Asia, Central KW - Russia KW - History KW - Relations KW - Asia [Central ] KW - Soviet Union KW - Asiatic relations KW - Central Asia KW - Soviet Central Asia KW - Tūrān KW - Turkestan KW - West Turkestan KW - Asia KW - History. KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - Asia [Central] KW - Asia, Central - History KW - Asia, Central - Relations - Russia KW - Russia - Relations - Asia, Central UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2943640 AB - Originally published in 1899, The Heart of Asia is a definitive history of Central Asia from pre-history to the contemporary machinations of the Russian empire. The book is valuable not only because of the quality of the historical work on the early period, but also because of the unique picture that it gives of contemporary views on the potential for Anglo-Russian conflict, at a time when the Russian Empire was Britain's closest rival for Asian hegemony.Scholars of modern Russia and Central Asia will find much that echoes, and indeed drives, more recent events. ER -