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050	0	0	_aDS352. _bT467 1910
100	1		_aThornton, Ernest.
245	1	0	_aLeaves from an Afghan scrapbook : _bthe experiences of an English official and his wife in Kabul / Ernest and Annie Thornton ; with illustrations form photographs and Sketches by the authors, and other sources.
260			_aLondon : _bJohn Murray, _c1910.
300			_axvi, 225 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c30 cm.
500			_a“Ernest Thornton was an English official and industrial manager who in 1892 was engaged by the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir ʻAbd al-Rahman Khān (reigned 1880−1901), to establish a tannery and leather factory in Kabul. After encountering all manner of difficulties with the enterprise, Thornton resigned his post and left Afghanistan the following year. In late 1902, he received an offer from the Afghan government to return to Kabul to make another attempt at establishing a factory. Accompanied by his wife Annie, Thornton lived in Afghanistan in 1903−9, where he successfully built and operated a plant that produced boots for the Afghan army. Thornton, who at one point was one of only two Englishmen living in the country, worked closely with ʻAbd al-Rahman’s successor, Amir Habibullah Khān (reigned 1901−19), who sought to modernize his country but whose real passion was golf. Leaves from an Afghan Scrapbook is an account by the Thorntons of their life in Afghanistan. It offers a detailed portrayal of Amir Habibullah Khān and life at the court as well as observations on Afghan religious life, customs, dress, music, and economic activity. Of particular interest are Ernest Thornton’s observations on the speed with which a largely illiterate Afghan workforce with little or no formal education or training for industrial labor was able to master modern technologies and operate up-to-date machinery imported from Europe”—copied from website.
500			_aThe 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.
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600	2	0	_aThornton, Annie.
651		0	_aKabul (Afghanistan).
651		0	_aAfghanistan – Description and travel.
651		0	_aAfghanistan – Social life and customs.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_t467_1910 _zScanned for ACKU.
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