The Makings of Modern Afghanistan

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Palgrave Macmillan, 15 նոյ, 2008 թ. - 258 էջ
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Examines 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
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The Making of Modern Afghanistan
B. Hopkins
Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2008
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
B. Hopkins
Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2008

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B. D. HOPKINS  is currently research fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge, UK. He has also been a Fellow in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. His research and teaching interests include South Asian history, British imperialism, the history of Afghanistan and the Northwest Frontier.

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ՎերնագիրThe Makings of Modern Afghanistan
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
ՀեղինակB. D. Hopkins
Editionillustrated
ՀրատարակիչPalgrave Macmillan, 2008
Original fromԿալիֆորնիայի համալսարան
Digitized10 Հուլիս 2009
ISBN0230554210, 9780230554214
Length258 էջ
  
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