Overview
- Explores Anglo-Afghan diplomacy in the interwar period, drawing on detailed archival research to present an institutional history of the British legation in Kabul, Afghanistan Incorporates themes of performance, the body, space and architecture in examining the diplomatic mission and colonial continuities Offers new perspectives on international relations through a cultural history of diplomacy, breaking down the usual disciplinary boundaries of colonial, imperial and diplomatic studies
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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“This book is a valuable addition to the growing literature on Afghanistan’s entanglements with the British empire. … The book does a remarkable job at delineating the ways in which this diplomatic representation went to great lengths to fashion itself as a ,colonial project en miniature‘ along the model of British residencies … .” (Francesca Fuoli, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, May 21, 2021)
“Afghanistan has been, and continues to be, a site for the enacting of various experiments in imperial and neo-imperial governance. In Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy Maximilian Drephal offers an ambitious and strikingly original diplomatic history of interwar Anglo-Afghan relations that makes a crucial historical intervention on the ‘coloniality’ of foreign relations as such, including its embodied, literary, and architectural practices. The book reaches across the disciplinary boundaries of South Asian history, imperial history, diplomatic history, Afghanistan studies, and critical International Relations, showing how the enacting of a particular form of imperial power operated in practice.” (Martin J. Bayly, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)“This book makes a number of original and important contributions to the historiography of Afghanistan, British Indian colonialism, and the British Empire. With illuminating detail, Drephal demonstrates the counter-intuitive fact that Afghan independence in 1919 intensified connections between Afghanistan, British India and the imperial system. This is a welcome historical ethnography of a multi-layered diplomatic space that refreshingly combines micro- and macro-perspectives. The Legation comes alive here.” (Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University, USA)
“Maximilian Drephal’s work opens important new vistas on our understandings of modern Afghanistan and the impact of its continuing relations with colonial powers following the moment of independence in the wake of the First World War. By skilfully combining such diverse historical fields as ‘new’ imperial, diplomatic and sports history, as well as the history of bodily comportment, Drephal paints a rich picture not only of Afghanistan’s new political trajectory, but also the daily lives of those shaping it. This book will redefine not only our understandings of relations between British India and Afghanistan during the eve of empire, but also of the diplomatic workings of that empire on a global scale.” (Benjamin D. Hopkins, The George Washington University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Maximilian Drephal lectures in the School of Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University, UK, and is Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he has taught as Lecturer in International History. He has previously published in Modern Asian Studies and in the edited collection Sport and Diplomacy: Games within Games (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy
Book Subtitle: The British Legation in Kabul, 1922–1948
Authors: Maximilian Drephal
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23960-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23959-6Published: 02 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23962-6Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23960-2Published: 25 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 366
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History, History of the Middle East, Political History