The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: a reader

by Bacevich, Andrew J. Burton, Antoinette M.

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Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

Comprend un index.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 272 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822356509, 0822356503, 9780822356622, 0822356627
oclc:on1131480936
LC Classification:DS363
Dewey Decimal:958.1/03

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 Afgh…

Subjects

Afghan Wars Afghanistan Afghānistān -- Histoire -- 1838-1842 (I… Afghānistān -- Histoire militaire -- 19… Afghanistan -- History -- British Inter… Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire militaire -… Great Britain Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1… Guerres anglo-afghanes History Military history