Martin J Bayly

Taming the Imperial Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781107542679
• ISBN-10: 1107542677
• Artikelnr.: 53448996

Autorenporträt

Martin J. Bayly is an LSE Fellow in Contemporary International Relations Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

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.