The First Anglo-Afghan Wars : a reader / Antoinette Burton, editor ; with a foreword by Andrew J. Bacevich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Bacevich, Andrew J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afghan Wars.

History, Military.

Afghanistan--History--British Intervention, 1838-1842.

Afghanistan.

History.

Afghanistan--History, Military--19th century.

Great Britain--History, Military--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 North West 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 jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: The Anglo-Afghan Wars in historical perspective

Strategic interests on the road to Kabul

A sketch of the military and political power of Russia (1817)/ Robert Wilson

Journey to the North of India (1838)/ Arthur Conolly

The court and camp of Runjit Sing (1840) / W. G. Osborne

A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under general Perofski (1939)

The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842: occupation, route, defeat, captivity

Narrative of the war in Affghanistan (1840) / Henry Havelock

To Herat and Cabul: a story of the First Afghan War (1902) / G. A. Henty

A journal of disasters in Affghanistan (1843) / Florentia Sale

English captives at Cabul

The life of the amir dost mohammed khan (1846), mohan lal

The afghan wars (1896), archibald forbes

The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880: imperial insecurities, global stakes

Gorchakov circular (1864)

The Russian foreign policy in Asia (1877) / Eugene Schuyler

The Afghan War: a lecture (1878) / Handel Cossham

Afghanistan and its peoples (1878) and Afghan women and children

India and Afghanistan (1879) / R. D. Osborn

From the spectator: the magnitude of the Afghan War, Abdurrahman Khan

The disaster in Candahar, The first lesson of Candahar, The rumor from Cabula, and The death of Abdul Rahman Khan

The great game, 1880-1919

Russia in Central Asia (1889) / George Nathaniel Curzon

The Amir's homily (1891) / Rudyard Kipling

The life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan (1900) and The Ameer's memoirs / Mohammed khan, editor, and the Spectator

The Russians at the gates of Herat (1885) / Charles Marvin

The campaign towards Afghanistan (1885) / Andrei Bolandin

The story of the Malakand field force (1901) / Winston Churchill

The Indian frontier troubles, The graphic (1897)

The judgment of the sword (1913) / Maud Diver

Our relations with Afghanistan? (1919) / Demetrius C. Boulger

Third Afghan War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822356509

0822356503

9780822356622

0822356627

OCLC:

859044861