Taming the Imperial Imagination

Taming the Imperial Imagination

Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808-1878

Bayly, Martin J. (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Cambridge University Press

05/2016

352

Dura

Inglês

9781107118058

15 a 20 dias

A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.
Introduction; Part I. Knowledge: 1. Early European explorers of Afghanistan; 2. Knowledge entrepreneurs; Part II. Policy: 3. 'Information ... information': Anglo-Afghan relations in the 1830s; 4. Contestation and closure: rationalising the Afghan polity; Part III. Exception: 5. The emergence of a violent geography, 1842-53; 6. Overcoming exception, 1853-7; 7. 'Science' and sentiment: the era of frontier management, 1857-78; Conclusion.
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