
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Querying the Kabul Hypothesis
- Part I: Colonial Market Knowledge and Commercial Experimentation
- Introduction: The Historical Location and Conceptual Framing of Afghanistan
- 1. Financing the Kabul Produce
- 2. Contracting Nomadic Carriage for an Aquatic Agenda
- 3. Fiscal Instability and State Revenue Reformulation during the First British Occupation
- Part II: The New Outdated Colonial Political Economy
- 4. Capital Concentrations and Coordinations: Peshawar Subsidies and Kabul Workshops
- 5. New State Texts and Old Commercial Flows
- 6. Mutual Evasion between Afghanistan and the Global Marketplace
- Conclusion: Deflecting Colonial Canons and Cannons: Alternate Routes to Knowing Afghanistan
- Cover and Header Photo by Steve McCurry
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- © 2008 Columbia University Press
