Robert D McChesney

An Afghan Prince in Victorian England

Race, Class, and Gender in an Afghan-Anglo Imperial Encounter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780755645848
• ISBN-10: 0755645847
• Artikelnr.: 69673059

Autorenporträt

R.D. McChesney

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Sources Chapter 2: The
Context: Afghanistan in 1895 and the Afghan-Anglo Relationship Chapter 3:
The Long Wait: Harassing the Hegemon: Chapter 4: Confounding Dichotomies:
The Mission's Composition Chapter 5: By Land and by Sea: From Kabul to
Portsmouth Chapter 6: London Days: English Performance, Afghan Agency
Chapter 7: Touring the Provinces: Industrial Power and Its Impressions
Chapter 8: "Linger Longer Lucy": Afghan Performance, English Agency Chapter
9: Homeward Bound: Afghan Pleasures, English Intrigues Conclusion Epilogue:
The Afterlives Appendix: Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan's Dastur al-'amal
Bibliography Index