The City of Balkh and the Caravan Trade of Nineteenth-Century Central Eurasia Across the Black Sands and the Red: Travel Writing, Nature, and the Reclamation of the Eurasian Steppe, c. 1850 Indo-Persian Crossings Indo-Persian Views of Southeast Asia and the Buddhist Kingdom of Mrauk U The Fortressed City: Space and Sovereignty in the Durrani Kingdom of Afghanistan, circa 1817