Taming the Imperial Imagination - Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, Anglo Afghan Encounter,

Informationen zum Autor Martin J. Bayly is an LSE Fellow in Contemporary International Relations Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Klappentext Taming the Imperial Imagination marks a novel intervention into the debate on empire and international relations! and offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century Anglo-Afghan relations. Martin J. Bayly shows how! throughout the nineteenth century! the British Empire in India sought to understand and control its peripheries through the use of colonial knowledge. Addressing the fundamental question of what Afghanistan itself meant to the British at the time! he draws on extensive archival research to show how knowledge of Afghanistan was built! refined and warped by an evolving colonial state. This knowledge informed policy choices and cast Afghanistan in a separate legal and normative universe. Beginning with the disorganised exploits of nineteenth-century explorers and ending with the cold strategic logic of the militarised 'scientific frontier'! this book tracks the nineteenth-century origins of contemporary policy 'expertise' and the forms of knowledge that inform interventions in Iraq! Afghanistan and elsewhere today. Zusammenfassung Shows how powerful states and empires seek to know and understand parts of the world they consider to be unknown! dangerous or violent. Spanning multiple disciplines! this book will appeal to students and researchers working in the fields of history! international relations! diplomacy! conflict and foreign policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Knowledge: 1. Early European explorers of Afghanistan; 2. Knowledge entrepreneurs; Part II. Policy: 3. 'Information ... information': Anglo-Afghan relations in the 1830s; 4. Contestation and closure: rationalising the Afghan polity; Part III. Exception: 5. The emergence of a violent geography, 1842-53; 6. Overcoming exception, 1853-7; 7. 'Science' and sentiment: the era of frontier management, 1857-78; Conclusion....

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• Authors: Martin J. Bayly, Martin J. (London School of Economics and P Bayly, Martin J. (London School of Economics and Political Science) Bayly, Bayly Martin J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2016
• EAN: 9781107118058
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11805-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Afghanistan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Colonialism and imperialism, African History