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Book A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus  in the Expedition to Afghanistan in the Years 1838 1839

Download or read book A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus in the Expedition to Afghanistan in the Years 1838 1839 written by William Hough and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus

Download or read book A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus written by William Hough and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus  in the Expedition to Affghanistan in the Years 1838 1839

Download or read book A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus in the Expedition to Affghanistan in the Years 1838 1839 written by William Hough and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography Of Afghanistan

Download or read book A Bibliography Of Afghanistan written by K. S. McLachlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.

Book The Instruments of Battle

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Tanner
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2017-09-11
  • ISBN : 1612003702
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book The Instruments of Battle written by James Tanner and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The hitherto forgotten story of the development of the regimental band, mainly drummers and buglers. A rare piece of social history” (Books Monthly). The Instruments of Battle examines in detail the development and role of the British Army’s fighting drummers and buglers, from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal weapon of war was the drum and bugle—and the fife—these men and boys were not musicians as such, but fighting soldiers who took their place in the front line. The origins of the drum and bugle in the classical period and the later influence of Islamic armies are examined, leading to the arrival of the drum and fife in early Tudor England. The story proper picks up post-English Civil War. The drum’s period of supremacy through much of the eighteenth-century army is surveyed, and certain myths as to its use are dispelled. The bugle rapidly superseded the drum for field use in the nineteenth century—until developments on the battlefield consigned these instruments largely to barrack life and the parade ground. But there are surprising examples of the use of the bugle in the field through both world wars as the story is brought up to modern day and the instruments’ relegation to an almost exclusively ceremonial role. This is all set against a background of campaigns, battles, changing tactical methods, and the difficult processes of command and control on the battlefield. Interwoven is relevant comparison with other armies, particularly American and French. Stories of the drummers and buglers themselves provide social context to their place in the army.

Book Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare

Download or read book Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare written by James L. Hevia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousands of camels of the Indus River basin to move supplies into and out of contested areas—a system that wreaked havoc on the delicately balanced multispecies environment of humans, animals, plants, and microbes living in this region of Northwest India. In Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare, James Hevia examines the use of camels, mules, and donkeys in colonial campaigns of conquest and pacification, starting with the Second Afghan War—during which an astonishing 50,000 to 60,000 camels perished—and ending in the early twentieth century. Hevia explains how during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new set of human-animal relations were created as European powers and the United States expanded their colonial possessions and attempted to put both local economies and ecologies in the service of resource extraction. The results were devastating to animals and human communities alike, disrupting centuries-old ecological and economic relationships. And those effects were lasting: Hevia shows how a number of the key issues faced by the postcolonial nation-state of Pakistan—such as shortages of clean water for agriculture, humans, and animals, and limited resources for dealing with infectious diseases—can be directly traced to decisions made in the colonial past. An innovative study of an underexplored historical moment, Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare opens up the animal studies to non-Western contexts and provides an empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of multispecies historical ecology.

Book Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century written by William B. Trousdale and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.

Book The Return of a King

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Dalrymple
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 1408818302
  • Pages : 609 pages

Download or read book The Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839 18,000 British troops marched into Afghanistan. Three years later, only one man emerged to tell the tale.. A towering history of the first Afghan war by bestselling historian William Dalrymple.

Book Arming the Periphery

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. Chew
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 1137006609
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Arming the Periphery written by E. Chew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914).

Book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest

Download or read book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest written by Edward Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North west  Including Sinde  Afghanistan  Beloochista  the Punjab  and the Neighboring States

Download or read book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North west Including Sinde Afghanistan Beloochista the Punjab and the Neighboring States written by Edward Thornton and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including Sinde, Afghanistan, Belloochistan, Punjab And The Neighbouring States.

Book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North West  Including Sinde  Afghanistan  Beloochistan  the Punjab and the Neighbouring States in Two Volumes Compiled by the Authority of the Hon  Court of Directors of the East India Company and Chiefly from Documents in Their Possession

Download or read book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North West Including Sinde Afghanistan Beloochistan the Punjab and the Neighbouring States in Two Volumes Compiled by the Authority of the Hon Court of Directors of the East India Company and Chiefly from Documents in Their Possession written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Connecting Histories in Afghanistan

Download or read book Connecting Histories in Afghanistan written by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still made their way into Afghanistan. Looking closely at commerce in and between Kabul, Peshawar, and Qandahar, this book reveals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade. British colonial political emphasis on Kabul had significant commercial consequences both for the city itself and for the cities it displaced to become the capital of the emerging Afghan state. Focused on routing between three key markets, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan challenges the overtly political tone and Orientalist bias that characterize classic colonialism and much contemporary discussion of Afghanistan.

Book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North West

Download or read book A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North West written by Edward Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gazetteer of the countries adjacent to India on the North West

Download or read book Gazetteer of the countries adjacent to India on the North West written by Edward Thornton (of the East India House.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Afghanistan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis Dupree
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-14
  • ISBN : 1400858917
  • Pages : 803 pages

Download or read book Afghanistan written by Louis Dupree and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient land and the modern nation of Afghanistan are the subject of Louis Dupree's book. Both in the text and in over a hundred illustrations, he identifies the major patterns of Afghan history, society, and culture as they have developed from the Stone Age to the present. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.