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Expedition Into Afghanistan A Personal Narrative During The Campaign Of 1839 And 1840
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Book Synopsis Expedition Into Afghanistan: a Personal Narrative During the Campaign of 1839 And 1840 by : Jamea Atkinson
Download or read book Expedition Into Afghanistan: a Personal Narrative During the Campaign of 1839 And 1840 written by Jamea Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colourful eye-witness account, written and published while the conflict was still continuing, of the early phase of the British-Afghan war of 1839-42. The author, James Atkinson, was a surgeon with the army of the Indus, and took part in Britain s ill-considered march into the interior of Afghanistan to restore, after a lapse of 30 years, Shah Shoojah in place of a rival ruler. Dost Mahomed Khan, who was thought by the British to favour the Russians in the Great Game for control of the northern approaches to India. After preliminary descriptions of Shoojah and Dost and the political background, Atkindon s account opens with him joining the army of the Indus after a journey beset by robbers and disease. The army marches through harsh terrain and hostile tribes to Kandahar, before storming the fortress of Ghizni, the loss of which disheartened Dost s supporters and led to the fall of the capital Kabul., and eventually to his own surrender. At this point Atkinson s account concludes - mercifully before he learned of the flight and massacre of most of the British army in Kabul in 1842. Then, as now, the dilemma of the foreign occupiers of a country the author describes as semi-barbarous is summed up in Atkinson s own eloquent words: Like Sisyphus, we have rolled up the huge stone to the top of the mountain, and if we do not keep it there, our labour will be lost . A topical and fascinating account for all those interested in Victorian colonial wars, the Indian sub-continent, or the unchanging nature of conflict in Afghanistan.
Book Synopsis The Expedition Into Afghanistan by : James Atkinson
Download or read book The Expedition Into Afghanistan written by James Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Expedition Into Affghanistan by : James Atkinson
Download or read book The Expedition Into Affghanistan written by James Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Anglo-Afghan Wars by : Antoinette Burton
Download or read book The First Anglo-Afghan Wars written by Antoinette Burton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. From 1839 to 1842, and again from 1878 to 1880, Britain fought to expand its empire and prevent Russian expansion into the region's northwest frontier, which was considered the gateway to India, the jewel in Victorian Britain's imperial crown. Spanning from 1817 to 1919, the selections reflect the complex national, international, and anticolonial interests entangled in Central Asia at the time. The documents, each of which is preceded by a brief introduction, bring the nineteenth-century wars alive through the opinions of those who participated in or lived through the conflicts. They portray the struggle for control of the region from the perspectives of women and non-Westerners, as well as well-known figures including Kipling and Churchill. Filled with military and civilian voices, the collection clearly demonstrates the challenges that Central Asia posed to powers attempting to secure and claim the region. It is a cautionary tale, unheeded by Western powers in the post–9/11 era.
Book Synopsis Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Download or read book Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russia in Central Asia in 1889 by : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Download or read book Russia in Central Asia in 1889 written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by : George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (marqués.)
Download or read book Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question written by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (marqués.) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by : George Nathaniel of Curzon
Download or read book Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question written by George Nathaniel of Curzon and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Expedition Into Affghanistan by : James Atkinson
Download or read book The Expedition Into Affghanistan written by James Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century by : William B. Trousdale
Download or read book Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century written by William B. Trousdale and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Return of a King by : William Dalrymple
Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
Book Synopsis Kabul: a History 1773-1948 by : May Schinasi
Download or read book Kabul: a History 1773-1948 written by May Schinasi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through years of neglect, deliberate modernization, and the effect of decades of war, Kabul’s architectural history has virtually disappeared. By meticulous use of all available records including written works, photographs, films, and oral reminiscences, Kabul: A History 1773-1948 provides a remarkably complete and unsurpassed account of the city’s history as seen through its built environment, from the pleasure gardens of the 16th and 17th century Mughals to the efforts of the Saduza’i and Muhammadza’i rulers of the 18th-20th centuries to turn this one-time resort town into a thriving capital city at the center of a country of enormous diversity. Thoroughly documented and well-illustrated, the book reveals the rich cultural legacy of a city of global importance.
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Book Synopsis Victorians in the Mountains by : Ann C. Colley
Download or read book Victorians in the Mountains written by Ann C. Colley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted perspective it was, as unprecedented numbers of the Victorian middle and professional classes took themselves off on mountaineering holidays so commonplace that the editors of Punch sarcastically reported that the route to the summit of Mont Blanc was to be carpeted. In Part One, Colley mines diaries and letters to interrogate how everyday tourists and climbers both responded to and undercut ideas about the sublime, showing how technological advances like the telescope transformed mountains into theatrical spaces where tourists thrilled to the sight of struggling climbers; almost inevitably, these distant performances were eventually reenacted at exhibitions and on the London stage. Colley's examination of the Alpine Club archives, periodicals, and other primary resources offers a more complicated and inclusive picture of female mountaineering as she documents the strong presence of women on successful expeditions in the latter half of the century. In Part Two, Colley turns to John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose writings about the Alps reflect their feelings about their Romantic heritage and shed light on their ideas about perception, metaphor, and literary style. Colley concludes by offering insights into the ways in which expeditions to the Himalayas affected people's sense of the sublime, arguing that these individuals were motivated as much by the glory of Empire as by aesthetic sensibility. Her ambitious book is an astute exploration of nationalism, as well as theories of gender, spectacle, and the technicalities of glacial movement that were intruding on what before had seemed inviolable.
Book Synopsis Space, Territory, and the State by : Raṇabīra Samāddāra
Download or read book Space, Territory, and the State written by Raṇabīra Samāddāra and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses the neglected issues of space, border and statelessness in international politics and contributes a much needed view from the South . Importantly, it asserts that chasms created by borders (including those between India and Pakistan) can be bridged by dialogue, a little analysed tool in international relations.
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Book Synopsis Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 by : Mary Ellis Gibson
Download or read book Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 written by Mary Ellis Gibson and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Mary Ellis Gibson establishes accurate texts for such well-known poets as Toru Dutt and the early nineteenth-century poet Kasiprasad Ghosh. The anthology brings together poets who were in fact colleagues, competitors, and influences on each other. The historical scope of the anthology, beginning with the famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous “Anna Maria” and ending with Indian poets publishing in fin-de-siècle London, will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore’s Gitanjali became a global phenomenon. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 puts all parties to the poetic conversation back together and makes their work accessible to American audiences.With accurate and reliable texts, detailed notes on vocabulary, historical and cultural references, and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets, this collection significantly reshapes the understanding of English language literary culture in India. It allows scholars to experience the diversity of poetic forms created in this period and to understand the complex religious, cultural, political, and gendered divides that shaped them.
