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The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century by Barbara Emerson russia-multiculturalism with fierce hand-to-hand fighting inA comprehensive history of Russo British relations at the height of the imperial age, from Peter the Great to the Triple Entente. Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleons defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asiathe Great Gameand, towards the end of the century, East Asia. The First Cold War presents for the first