Foreword / Andrew J. Bacevich ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Anglo-Afghan Wars in Historical Perspective 1 Part I. Strategic Interests on the Road to Kabul 15 Part II. The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842: Occupation, Route, Defeat, Captivity 43 Part III. The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880: Imperial Insecurities, Global Stakes 127 Part IV. The Great Game, 1880-1919 189 Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources 255 Reprint Acknowledgments 257 Index 259
Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and
Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and
edited many books, including A Primer for Teaching World History:
Ten Design Principles; Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and
Teaching British Imperialism; Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and
the Writing of History; and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with
and through the Nation, all published by Duke University Press.
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perspectives on the first Anglo–Afghan wars to achieve a nuanced
understandingof the conflicts."
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essays in this volume."
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"Overall, Burton’s impressive collection of documents offers a
great deal to students and scholars alike. It will enliven
classroom debate in courses on imperialism, warfare, and South and
Central Asia. The book provides a much-needed history of recent and
contemporary warfare, especially in Afghanistan, South Asia, and
the Middle East."
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