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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxix, 515 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the mid-19th-century Afghan war as a tragic result of neocolonial ambition, cultural collision and hubris, drawing on previously untapped primary sources to explore such topics as the reestablishment of a puppet-leader Shah, the conflict's brutal human toll and the similarities between the war and present-day challenges.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 522 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In August 1756 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army--what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government...
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