Connecting histories in Afghanistan
Subtitle: market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier
By: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780804774116
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Politics and government; Commerce; Colonies; Economic policy; History
Notes: Originally published online in 2008 by Columbia University Press.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the historical location and conceptual framing of Afghanistan; title: Financing the Kabul produce; title: Contracting nomadic carriage for an aquatic agenda; title: Fiscal instability and state revenue reformulation during the first British occupation; title: Capital concentrations and coordinations : Peshawar subsidies and Kabul workshops; title: New state texts and old commercial flows; title: Mutual evasion between Afghanistan and the global marketplace; title: Conclusion : deflecting colonial canons and cannons : alternate routes to knowing Afghanistan.