Western culture in eastern lands. A comparison of the methods adopted by England and Russia in the middle east.
London: John Murray, 1906. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 410; original blue cloth, spine gilt; a few tears to cloth at spine, upper hinge cracked; a good, sound copy. Vambéry argues against the accepted notion that the Russian, being semi-Asiatic themselves, were better fitted to "civilize" Asia than were the "stiff, proud" English. Item #30513
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