Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859)
Auteur de An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India : comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Mountstuart Elphinstone
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1779-10-06
- Date de décès
- 1859-11-20
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- Dumbarton, Scotland, UK
- Études
- Royal High School of Edinburgh
- Professions
- politician
historian - Organisations
- East India Company
- Courte biographie
- Mountstuart Elphinstone was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay (now Mumbai) where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population. Besides being a noted administrator, he wrote books on India and Afghanistan. [Wikipedia]
Membres
Critiques
Account of the Kingdom of Kabul (Oxford in Asia… par Mountstuart Elphinstone
When I wrote a retrospective review of this book for the Far Eastern Economic Review back in 1981 (see below), I did this to point out how Elphinstone's early 19th century account foreshadowed the problems that the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan would face. Little did I anticipate how Elphinstone's book would also foreshadow the problems that the American-led intervention there would subsequently encounter. To understand Afghanistan, this book is a must-read.
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 27
- Popularité
- #483,027
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 15
- Langues
- 1