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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820022003321

Autore

Mojtahed-Zadeh Pirouz

Titolo

Small players of the Great Game : the settlement of Iran's eastern borderlands and the creation of Afghanistan / / Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

ISBN

1-134-38377-0

0-203-34743-9

1-280-02549-2

0-203-48027-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Islamic Studies Series

Disciplina

320.1/2/0958

Soggetti

Geopolitics - Asia, Central

Afghanistan Boundaries

Iran Boundaries

Pakistan Boundaries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The great game and its major players; 2 Small players: the Khozeimeh family; 3 Khozeimeh foreign relations; 4 The partitioning of Khorasan and the creation of Afghanistan; 5 The partitioning of Khorasan and Baluchistan and the emergence of modern boundaries; 6 The partitioning of Sistan and the evolution of boundaries with Afghanistan; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local players in that game. Looking at the territorial consequences of the Great Game for the local players is a unique approach, which deserves a special place in the studies of history, geography, politics and geopolitics of the age of modernity.