Connecting histories in Afghanistan : market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier /

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Author / Creator:	Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud.
Edition:	ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, 2014, c2008.
Description:	1 online resource : color illustrations, facsimiles.
Language:	English
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book ACLS Gutenberg-e series ACLS Humanities E-Book. ACLS Gutenberg-e series.
Subject:	Afghanistan -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century. Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 19th century. Afghanistan -- Commerce -- India -- History -- 19th century. India -- Commerce -- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century. Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Commerce. Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Economic policy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10518406

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Other authors / contributors:	American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:	9780231512268 (e-book)
Notes:	Description based on title screen of 2014-02-02. "This title was originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org." Includes bibliographical references. Electronic text (HTML) and image data (JPG). Also available in printing. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mode of access: Intranet.
Other form:	Print version: Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud. Connecting histories in Afghanistan Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011, c2008 Original 9780804774116

Table of 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.

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