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Taming the Imperial Imagination - Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808-1878 (Paperback)
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Taming the Imperial Imagination - Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808-1878 (Paperback)
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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.
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