[Ads-l] Antedating of "Great Game"

[Dan Goncharoff]

But the geopolitics of Central Asia WAS the geopolitics of India at the
beginning of the 19th century.
DanG


On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 8:57 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> Since the context of the 1804 citation is the geopolitics of India rather
> than the geopolitics of Central Asia, Larry is probably correct that the
> 1804 citation should be placed in square brackets.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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> > On Jun 23, 2024, at 5:32 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> wrote:
> >
> > Great Game (OED 1841)
> >
> > 1804 Arthur Wellesley _Letter to Colonel Murray_ 2 May in _The
> Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington_ (1837) 3: 297-8
> >
> > You now have a great game on your hands.
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
> Should this be bracketed? I’m wondering about the context of “a great
> game” rather than one in which “the great game” (or “the Great Game”)
> clearly involves the presupposition that it refers to the skirmishes about
> the major powers over control of Southwest Asia…
>
> LH
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