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Author Neilson, Keith

Title Britain and the last tsar : British policy and Russia, 1894-1917 / Keith Neilson
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 408 pages) : maps
Series OUP E-Books
Contents 1. Power and Personality -- 2. The Elite's Russia -- 3. The Public's Russia -- 4. The Bear and the Whale: Russia in British Defence Planning -- 5. Problems Old and New: China and Armenia, 1894-1896 -- 6. Concessions, Conflict, and Conciliation: China, 1895-1899 -- 7. Anglo-Russian Relations, 1899-1903: China and Central Asia -- 8. The Russo-Japanese War -- 9. Forging the Anglo-Russian Convention -- 10. Alliance Firmed, 1907-1910 -- 11. Alliance Under Fire, 1911-1914 -- 12. Alliance in Action, 1914-1917
Summary This reinterpretation of British foreign and defence policy before World War I argues that British policies were determined not by a fear of Wilhelmine Germany, but rather by a desire to protect British interests abroad, which were threatened more seriously in the long term by Russia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-399) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Diplomatic relations
Regions & Countries - Europe.
Great Britain.
History & Archaeology.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Russia
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1901-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056714
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056711
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- 1894-1917
Subject Great Britain
Russia
Russia (Federation)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95020059
ISBN 9786610767144
6610767149
9780198204701
0198204701
1280767146
9781280767142
9780191676369
0191676365