The Making of Modern AfghanistanExamines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain’s imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the ‘Great Game’. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Power of Colonial Knowledge | 11 |
The Myth of the Great Game | 34 |
Հեղինակային իրավունք | |
10 այլ բաժինները չեն ցուցադրվում
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| Վերնագիր | The Making of Modern Afghanistan Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
| Հեղինակ | Ben Hopkins |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Հրատարակիչ | Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 |
| Original from | Կալիֆորնիայի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 10 Հուլիս 2009 |
| ISBN | 0230554210, 9780230554214 |
| Length | 258 էջ |
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