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Demetrius Charles Boulger (1853–1928) was a British orientalist who wrote prolifically on topics mainly related to the British Empire. With Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1838–1908), a British administrator in India, he co-founded the Asiatic Quarterly Review, which he edited for a time. Presented here is Boulger’s two-volume England and Russia in Central Asia, published in 1879 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). Boulger was an unapologetic imperialist with strongly anti-Russian views. In this book he predicts an “imminent” Anglo-Russian war, which, he argues, Great Britain should ...