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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181119094934.0 |
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Transcribing agency |
ACKU |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
D378. |
Item number |
T355 1879 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Tall tactics : |
Remainder of title |
England, Afghanistan. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
[London] : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
[Printed by G. Phipps], |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1879. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
52 pages ; |
Dimensions |
30 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Cover title.<br/> |
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General note |
“Tall Tactics: England Affghanistan is a 50-page essay by an unidentified author on British foreign policy, particularly policy toward Afghanistan, published during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). The war was initiated under the Conservative government of Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield), who was prime minister from February 1874 to April 1880. Disraeli was preceded by the Liberal William Gladstone (in office December 1868‒February 1874). Written from the Liberal point of view, the essay is an attack on Disraeli’s policies and a defense of those of Gladstone. It begins with a discussion of Anglo-Russian relations and the Eastern Question, i.e., the fate of the Ottoman Empire, noting that Conservative “policy towards Afghanistan has been guided by Tory wishes and watching’s in Turkey in Europe.” The remainder of the pamphlet is devoted to a defense of British policy toward Afghanistan under Gladstone and to criticisms of that policy under Disraeli, which it claims needlessly alienated the amir of Afghanistan, Sher Ali (ruled 1863‒66 and 1868‒79), and ultimately culminated in a pointless and costly war. The arguments made are reflective of those that raged in the British press and parliament in the 1870s as the parties debated how to respond to Russian expansionism in Central Asia and whether Russian moves constituted a threat to British India through Afghanistan. The author accuses the Disraeli government of acting contrary to the unwritten English constitution by committing “the country to a new line of political action without consulting Parliament.” The essay concludes with calls for the reform of the British political system, which it argues are needed to ensure that foreign and domestic policy are conducted for the “general good of all the people” rather than for the benefit of private interests”—copied from website. |
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General note |
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Linkage |
Includes bibliographical references.<br/> |
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
Language note |
English |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Great Britain – Foreign relations – Afghanistan. |
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Geographic name |
Afghanistan – Foreign relations – Great Britain. |
856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Electronic format type |
PDF |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_t355_1879 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_t355_1879 </a> |
Public note |
Scanned for ACKU. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Monograph |
Call number prefix |
azu_acku_d378_t355_1879 |