BRITISH ROUTES TO INDIA

London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. red cloth, gilt spine, pp.,xiii, 494, illustrated,frontis, maps, index, ink sig on front endpaper, some minor chips to d.j., spine of d.j toned, Reprint of the author's thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1924.CONTENTS; Beginnings of English Interest in Egypt -- International Competition for the Overland Route -- Blows at Britain's "Feet of Clay" -- Steam and the All-Sea Route to India --Tentative Trials of the Suez Passage -- The Shaping of a British Eastern Policy -- Attempts to Open the Euphrates Route -- Paving the Way to India -- Establishment of the Overland Route -- The Comprehensive Plan of Communication -- Disputed Guardianship of the Routes to India -- Beginnings of the Suez Canal -- The Euphrates Valley Railway -- The Building of the Suez Canal -- Telegraphic Routes to the East -- Improvements in Eastern Communications -- Revival of Projects for an Alternative Route -- The Canal and the Control of Egypt Size: 8 vo,..