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Scarce and Interesting 19th Century Review on the Following Book
Author:
WILSON, Sir Robert Thomas.
Title: A Sketch of the Military and Political Power of Russia, in the year 1817 - (A Review) Publisher: London: The Quarterly Review, 1818.
Notes:An engaging contemporary analysis on the popular book, which was published in 1818.
Spirited review that criticises Wilson's outspoken and tactless
overview of Russian politics and power. A best seller
of the time, his Sketch of the Military
and Political Power hypothesized about the growth of Russian influence and
insisted that the Russians were intent
on world domination, calculating that in
sixteen years on the throne, Alexander had added
200,000 square miles to his empire. His book engendered a great deal of public debate
and speculation
and according to Hopkirk (The Great Game), initiated the
West's increasing Russophobia that remains evident today.
Excerpt
"It only remains to give the moral to our prophecy,
- and in this we are happy, though on very different
grounds, and in terms not quite the same, to agree with
Sir Robert Wilson. He professes, as we have seen, to
dissuade us from resisting Russian. We see no necessity
to resist, but we earnestly deprecate all yielding to
vain alarms or popular clamour, which might induce us to
injure or offend her. Let us not, on the mere possibility
that she may one day become too powerful, dissolve our union
with an ancient ally, from whose greatness we now derive and
are likely to derive increasing benefit. Let not the two
nations whose languages (it is not vain boast), are one day
to divide the world, interfere without necessity in each
other's harvests - but let the rivalry between them be
which shall govern best, and be the instrument of most
improvement to the goodly fields which
Providence has entrusted to their care!"
End Excerpt
Fascinating and illuminating in itself, this is a special item to pair with the collector's copy of the book!
Condition:
47 pages. Book review. Unobtrusive stamp to the bottom margin of the first page, otherwise in Excellent Condition,
attractively bound in blue paper covers with label.
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