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Taming the imperial imagination : colonial knowledge, international relations, and the Anglo-Afghan encounter, 1808-1878
\"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. The book develops in three parts, each of which corresponds to a theme. Part one on 'knowledge' examines how British colonial knowledge of Afghanistan was constructed through the experience of early British explorers and their published travel accounts, focusing in particular on the works of Mountstuart Elphinstone, Alexander Burnes, and Charles Masson. Part two on 'policy' looks at how key policy decisions leading to the First Anglo-Afghan War were shaped by the knowledge provided by an Afghanistan 'knowledge community' based on this earlier body of work and the interpretations made by colonial officials. Part three on 'exception' considers the impact of the First Anglo-Afghan War on diplomatic relations, and charts the emergence of a particular 'idea' of Afghanistan mediated by inter-imperial visions of order, and the intellectual and cultural influences of a particular British frontier mentality\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Evaluating the \Trenton Effect\: Canadian Public Opinion and Military Casualties in Afghanistan (2006-2010)
Is the public perception of Canadians influenced by military losses in Afghanistan? Many commentators, academics, and members of the media have taken for granted that growing popular discontent toward Canada's involvement in Afghanistan has been influenced by the human costs of military operations. However, without an empirical examination of the question, such a claim remains assumed. This article assesses the influence of Canada's military casualties suffered in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2010 on Canadian public opinion. In looking at both aggregate and gendered data, I find that mounting military casualties in Kandahar had no significant impact on public opinion. However, in analyzing Canadian public opinion following regional divisions, I find that Quebec's and Alberta's public attitudes were surprisingly casualty-tolerant. Public opposition to the Afghanistan mission in other regions - that is, Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba/Saskatchewan, and the Atlantic provinces - was shaped to a lesser degree by casualties suffered by the Canadian Forces.
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An Afghan prince in Victorian England : race, class, and gender in an Afghan-Anglo imperial encounter
\"This is first English account of the diplomatic visit of Afghan Prince Nasr Allah to England in the late nineteenth century. Using both British and Afghan sources and placing the visit in its international and historical context McChesney analyses the agency, motivation and perceptions of the prince towards his hosts and vice versa, including the resistance of the smaller party. He reveals for example that while privately impressed by Britain's military prowess Nasr Allah instructed his colleagues to remain impassive in a successful attempt to frustrate the British. Above all we gain insight into the aims of two asymmetrical yet competing powers and a rare insight into Afghan leaders' attitudes and strategies towards the British Empire\"-- Provided by publisher.
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