Problems of the Far East by Hon. G. Curzon
Author: Hon. G. Curzon
Publishing House: Longmans, Green, & CO.
Year: 1894
Hardcover
Pages: 441
Curzon was the most anticipated Prime Minister who never became Prime Minister. It wasn’t for lack of ambition or intelligence. But perhaps God above punished him for his unrelenting colonialism. He was the Viceroy in India, and later the Foreign Secretary. His name is attached to the proposed and later nearly true dividing line between Poland and the USSR, and his handiwork in the Middle East includes the divvying up of the Ottoman Empire into the mosaic of states we see today, not to mention the formalized ethnic cleansing of the Greeks and the Muslims authorized by the Treaty of Lausanne. He was not a monster, however, and has some creditable reforms initiated in his times of service.
This book catches him in study mode, traveling in the Far East near the turn of the century. It is a characteristic mix of shrewd insight and blinkered chauvinism. He was not a simple tourist, and present-day historians can profitably read his historic/political works for insights to the time. But it is the window into the Victorian view of the non-British world for which they excel, not only this one but his volumes on Persia as it was then called.
Description: The book is in Fair to Good condition. All pages are present.
Author: Hon. G. Curzon
Publishing House: Longmans, Green, & CO.
Year: 1894
Hardcover
Pages: 441
Curzon was the most anticipated Prime Minister who never became Prime Minister. It wasn’t for lack of ambition or intelligence. But perhaps God above punished him for his unrelenting colonialism. He was the Viceroy in India, and later the Foreign Secretary. His name is attached to the proposed and later nearly true dividing line between Poland and the USSR, and his handiwork in the Middle East includes the divvying up of the Ottoman Empire into the mosaic of states we see today, not to mention the formalized ethnic cleansing of the Greeks and the Muslims authorized by the Treaty of Lausanne. He was not a monster, however, and has some creditable reforms initiated in his times of service.
This book catches him in study mode, traveling in the Far East near the turn of the century. It is a characteristic mix of shrewd insight and blinkered chauvinism. He was not a simple tourist, and present-day historians can profitably read his historic/political works for insights to the time. But it is the window into the Victorian view of the non-British world for which they excel, not only this one but his volumes on Persia as it was then called.
Description: The book is in Fair to Good condition. All pages are present.
Author: Hon. G. Curzon
Publishing House: Longmans, Green, & CO.
Year: 1894
Hardcover
Pages: 441
Curzon was the most anticipated Prime Minister who never became Prime Minister. It wasn’t for lack of ambition or intelligence. But perhaps God above punished him for his unrelenting colonialism. He was the Viceroy in India, and later the Foreign Secretary. His name is attached to the proposed and later nearly true dividing line between Poland and the USSR, and his handiwork in the Middle East includes the divvying up of the Ottoman Empire into the mosaic of states we see today, not to mention the formalized ethnic cleansing of the Greeks and the Muslims authorized by the Treaty of Lausanne. He was not a monster, however, and has some creditable reforms initiated in his times of service.
This book catches him in study mode, traveling in the Far East near the turn of the century. It is a characteristic mix of shrewd insight and blinkered chauvinism. He was not a simple tourist, and present-day historians can profitably read his historic/political works for insights to the time. But it is the window into the Victorian view of the non-British world for which they excel, not only this one but his volumes on Persia as it was then called.
Description: The book is in Fair to Good condition. All pages are present.