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Connecting histories in Afghanistan : market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi.
LIBRA HF3770.6 .H36 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies.
- Economic policy.
- Commerce.
- History.
- Politics and government.
- Afghanistan--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--Politics and government--19th century.
- Afghanistan--Commerce--India--History--19th century.
- India--Commerce--Afghanistan--History--19th century.
- India.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce--Asia.
- Great Britain.
- Asia.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Asia--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 270 : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published online in 2008 by Columbia University Press.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0804774110
- 9780804774116
- OCLC:
- 670248308
- Publisher Number:
- 99950364982
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