The Russian Advance
Place_Pub: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 485, maps, library stamp on top edge, front board weak/reglued, boards somewhat worn & soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Beveridge, U.S. Senator from Indiana and historian, published The Russian Advance after traveling the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This trip was a sobering personal revelation about Russian/Chinese racial harmony and thus a direct challenge to the famous imperialist speeches he had delivered in the previous decade. Partial Contents: Russia on the Pacific; Russian Capital and Labor; The Independent Peasant Artisan; Holy Russia, the Orthodox Nation; Things Casually Observed; Three Russians of World Fame; the Overlords of the Czar's Advancing Power in the Far East; Manchurian Railway Results and Methods; The Russian Advance Paralleled by the German Advance. Condition: good, ex-lib.
Keywords: Manchuria, Trans-Siberian Rail, Siberia, Blagovestchensk, Shimonoseki Convention, Joint Stock C., Russo-Japanese, Russia
[Book #52063]
Price: $50.00