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Connecting histories in Afghanistan : market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier /
Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2011, ©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the historical location and conceptual framing of Afghanistan
- Financing the Kabul produce
- Contracting nomadic carriage for an aquatic agenda
- Fiscal instability and state revenue reformulation during the first British occupation
- Capital concentrations and coordinations : Peshawar subsidies and Kabul workshops
- New state texts and old commercial flows
- Mutual evasion between Afghanistan and the global marketplace
- Conclusion : deflecting colonial canons and cannons : alternate routes to knowing Afghanistan.