The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military Economy
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.02.2007
Verlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
456
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.7 cm
Gewicht
682 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-521-03646-7
This is a cross-cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S. Cooper combines an overview of Maratha military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentric assumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill and technology. He argues that these campaigns, in which Arthur Wellesley served with distinction, represent the military high-water mark of the Marathas who posed the last serious opposition to the formation of the British Raj. Dr Cooper asserts that the real contest for India was never a single decisive battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turned on a complex social and political struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. The author shows that victory in 1803 hinged as much on finance, diplomacy, politics and intelligence as it did on battlefield manoeuvre and war itself.
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