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==Further reading== {{refbegin|35em}} * Alder, G. J. "Standing Alone: William Moorcroft Plays the Great Game, 1808β1825." ''International History Review'' 2#2 1980, pp. 172β215. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105750 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819190204/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105750 |date=19 August 2022 }} * {{citation |last=Becker |first=Seymour |year=2005 |title=Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865β1924 |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon, London |isbn=978-0415328036 |url=http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134510559_sample_525052.pdf |access-date=18 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010171042/http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134510559_sample_525052.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2016 |url-status=dead}} * Campbell, Heather A. (2021) "Great Game Thinking: The British Foreign Office and Revolutionary Russia." ''Revolutionary Russia'' 34.2 (2021): 239-258. [https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2021.1978638 online] * Dean, Riaz (2019). ''Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia'' (Oxford: Casemate (UK). ISBN 978-1-61200-814-1). * {{citation |last=Ewans |first=Martin |year=2002 |title=Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0060505080 |author-link=Martin Ewans |url=https://archive.org/details/afghanistanshort00ewan}} * {{citation |last=Ewans |first=Martin |year=2012 |title=Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia: Confrontation and Negotiation, 1865β1895 |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon, Oxon. UK |isbn=978-0415316392 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5xeBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 |access-date=26 September 2016 |archive-date=24 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202710/https://books.google.com/books?id=R5xeBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 |url-status=live}} * Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ''The Anglo-Afghan Wars 1839β1919'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014). * Fromkin, David. "The great game in Asia" ''Foreign Affairs'' 58#4 (1980), pp. 936β951. * Hopkirk, Peter. ''The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia'' ( NY: Kodansha, 1990_. Illus. 564p. maps. [Original title, UK: [[The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia]]], popular military history * Ingram, Edward. ''Commitment to Empire: Prophecies of the Great Game in Asia, 1797β1800'' (1981) 431pp. * Ingram, Edward. ''Beginning of the Great Game in Asia, 1828β1834'' (1979) * {{cite journal |jstor=40105749 |title=Great Britain's Great Game: An Introduction |journal=The International History Review |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=160β171 |last1=Ingram |first1=Edward |year=1980 |doi=10.1080/07075332.1980.9640210}} * Khodarkovsky, Michael. "The Great Game in the North Caucasus." ''Canadian-American Slavic Studies'' 49.2-3 (2015): 384β390. * Klein, Ira. "The Anglo-Russian Convention and the Problem of Central Asia, 1907-1914." ''Journal of British Studies'' 11#1 1971, pp. 126β147. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/175041 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123230952/https://www.jstor.org/stable/175041 |date=23 November 2021 }} * {{Citation |last=Mahajan |first=Sneh |year=2001 |title=British Foreign Policy 1874β1914: The Role of India |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415260107 |url=http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134510559_sample_525052.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010171042/http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134510559_sample_525052.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2016 |url-status=dead}} * {{Cite journal |last=Mehra |first=Parshotam |date=2004-07-01 |title=The great game: Russia's role in the Persian Empire and Tibet |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0306837042000241082 |journal=Asian Affairs |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=200β205 |doi=10.1080/0306837042000241082 |s2cid=162349090 |issn=0306-8374}} * Mohl, Raymond A. "Confrontation in Central Asia, 1885" ''History Today'' (March 1969), Vol. 19 Issue 3, pp 176β183 online. * {{citation |last=Morgan |first=Gerald |year=1973 |title=Myth and Reality in the Great Game |journal=Asian Affairs |volume=4 |number=1 |pages=55β65 |doi=10.1080/03068377308729652}} * {{citation |last=Morgan |first=Gerald |year=1981 |title=Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia: 1810β1895, Epilogue by Lt. Col. (retd) Geoffrey Wheeler |publisher=Routledge, London |isbn=978-0714631790 |title-link=Geoffrey Wheeler (historian)}} * Preston, Adrian. "Frustrated Great Gamesmanship: Sir Garnet Wolseley's Plans for War against Russia, 1873-1880." ''International History Review'' 2#2 1980, pp. 239β265. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105752 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409044532/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105752 |date=9 April 2022 }} * {{Cite book |last=Rywkin |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkdnDwAAQBAJ |title=Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia |date=2016-07-22 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-49087-8 |language=en |chapter=Chapter One - Tsarist Times}} * [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury|Salisbury, Robert]] (2020). ''William Simpson and the Crisis in Central Asia, 1884-5''. {{ISBN|978-1-5272-7047-3}} * Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David. "Paul's great game: Russia's plan to invade British India." ''Central Asian Survey'' 33.2 (2014): 143β152. On Russia's failed plan to invade India in 1801. * Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David. "Russian foreign policy: 1815β1917." in ''The Cambridge History of Russia'' (2006): 2:554β574, argues Russia had no intention of attacking India after 1801 * Sergeev, EvgeniΔ. ''The Great Game, 1856β1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia'' (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013). * {{Cite journal |last=Share |first=Michael |date=2004-10-01 |title=Along the fringes of 'the great game': imperial Russia and Hong Kong, 1841β1907 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035853042000300205 |journal=The Round Table |language=en |volume=93 |issue=377 |pages=725β737 |doi=10.1080/0035853042000300205 |s2cid=154849203 |issn=0035-8533}} * Stone, James. "Bismarck and the Great Game: Germany and Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia, 1871β1890." ''Central European History'' (2015): 151β175 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965144 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515125200/https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965144 |date=15 May 2022 }}. * Thornton, A. P. "Afghanistan in Anglo-Russian Diplomacy, 1869β1873." ''Cambridge Historical Journal'' 11#2 (1954): 204β18. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3021077 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901052857/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3021077 |date=1 September 2022 }}. * Tripodi, Christian. "Grand Strategy and the Graveyard of Assumptions: Britain and Afghanistan, 1839β1919." ''Journal of Strategic Studies'' 33.5 (2010): 701β725. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2010.498252 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818165819/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2010.498252 |date=18 August 2022 }} ===Historiography and memory=== * Amos, Philip. "Recent Work on the Great Game in Asia." ''International History Review'' 2#2 1980, pp. 308β320. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/80000106 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819190132/https://www.jstor.org/stable/80000106 |date=19 August 2022 }} * Becker, Seymour. "The 'great game': The history of an evocative phrase." ''Asian Affairs'' 43.1 (2012): 61β80. * Martel, Gordon. "Documenting the Great Game: 'World Policy' and the 'Turbulent Frontier' in the 1890s" ''International History Review'' 2#2 1980, pp. 288β308. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105755 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822110455/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105755 |date=22 August 2022 }} * Morrison, Alexander. "Introduction: Killing the Cotton Canard and getting rid of the Great Game: rewriting the Russian conquest of Central Asia, 1814β1895." (2014): 131β142. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02634937.2014.915614 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819121838/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02634937.2014.915614 |date=19 August 2022 }} * {{citation |last=Yapp |first=Malcolm |date=16 May 2000 |chapter=The Legend of the Great Game |title=Proceedings of the British Academy: 2000 Lectures and Memoirs |volume=111 |pages=179β198 |publisher=Oxford University Press |chapter-url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2491/111p179.pdf |access-date=1 September 2022 |archive-date=1 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901222821/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2491/111p179.pdf |url-status=live}} ===Primary sources=== * {{citation |last=Ewans |first=Martin |year=2004 |title=The Great Game: Britain and Russia in Central Asia, Volume 1, Documents |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon, Oxon. UK |isbn=978-0415316392 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5Q_A1AbIBgC&pg=PA1 |access-date=6 August 2016 |archive-date=24 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202711/https://books.google.com/books?id=d5Q_A1AbIBgC&pg=PA1 |url-status=live}} * {{Citation |last=Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV |title=The Indian Empire, Administrative |publisher=Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxx, 1 map, 552 |year=1908}} * Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab; in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara; by William Moorcroft and George Trebeck, from 1819 to 1825. Edited by Horace Hayman Wilson. Published by John Murray, London, 1841. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinhimala02trebgoog Vol.1] and [https://archive.org/details/travelsinhimala00trebgoog Vol. 2] * Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia; also, Narrative of a voyage on the Indus, from the sea to Lahore, with presents from the king of Great Britain; performed under the orders of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833. (London: John Murray). 1834. [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha01burnuoft Vol.1] and [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha02burnuoft Vol.2] and [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha03burnuoft Vol.3] {{refend}}
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