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UNINA9910795651003321 |
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Autore |
Cohn Samuel <1954-> |
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All societies die : how to keep hope alive / / Samuel Cohn [[electronic resource]] |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Cornell scholarship online |
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Economic history |
Civilization |
Regression (Civilization) |
Social stability |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Also issued in print: 2021. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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The reality of societal death -- Tempting false steps -- Thinking big about thinking big -- What would be lost -- The seeds of trouble -- The hidden source of strength -- Crime, corruption and violence -- Triggers of destruction -- The circle of societal death -- Changing the culture, changing the world. |
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In 'All Societies Die', Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. |
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UNINA9910484844203321 |
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Autore |
Drephal Maximilian |
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Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy : The British Legation in Kabul, 1922–1948 / / by Maximilian Drephal |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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1 online resource (XXIII, 366 p. 9 illus., 2 illus. in color.) |
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641 |
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Imperialism |
Civilization - History |
Middle East - History |
World politics |
Imperialism and Colonialism |
Cultural History |
History of the Middle East |
Political History |
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1 Introduction: empire, colony and diplomacy -- 2 The remaking of anglo-afghan relations -- 3 Subaltern biographies -- 4 Biography and imperial governance -- 5 Accreditation and performance -- 6 Diplomatic bodies -- 7 Architecture -- 8 From colonial legation to postimperial embassy -- 9 Conclusions: the coloniality of diplomacy -- . |
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This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in the wider remit of Anglo-Afghan relations and diplomacy from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the networks of family and profession that established the institution’s colonial foundations and its connections across South Asia and the Indian Ocean. The study |
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presents the British Legation as a late imperial institution, which materialised colonialism's governmental practices in the age of independence. Ultimately, it demonstrates the continuation of asymmetries forged in the Anglo-Afghan encounter and shows how these were transformed into instances of diplomatic inequality in the realm of international relations. Approaching diplomacy through the themes of performance, the body and architecture, and in the context of knowledge transfers, this work offers new perspectiveson international relations through a cultural history of diplomacy. |
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