From defeat to glory : the first Anglo-Afghan War and the construction of the Victorian military machine, 1837-1851
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation contends that the First Anglo-Afghan War should be studied not only for dramatic import or political point-taking, but for the critical light it can shed on imperial thought, practice, and identity during this crucial period of the British Empire. Through a detailed examination of the historical record, it argues that the war was the birthing ground for techniques, policies, and strategies which echoed down the imperial century. These imaginative, rhetorical, and practical tools, blooded in the wreck of the first British adventure in Afghanistan, would become crucial elements of the imperial military machine. They included imperial mythmaking and the power of narrative construction to transform unacceptable failure into a useful imperial narrative; the brutal efficacy of exemplary violence to not only restore Britain's imperial honor and prestige, but to bolster imperial security by demonstrating the horrific consequences for those who would resist British rule; and the expanding imperial public sphere that played a newly critical role in the contestation of imperial self-analysis and the creation of imperial history. This dissertation argues that the First Anglo-Afghan War was the formative catalyst for the Victorian military machine.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Lundberg, Caitlyn Elizabeth |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Satia, Priya |
| Thesis advisor | Satia, Priya |
| Thesis advisor | Como, David R, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Crews, Robert D, 1970- |
| Advisor | Como, David R, 1970- |
| Advisor | Crews, Robert D, 1970- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Caitlyn Elizabeth Lundberg. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Caitlyn Elizabeth Lundberg
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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