A History Of Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Author | : Jonathan L. Lee |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 797 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781789140194 |
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A colossal history of Afghanistan from its earliest organization into a coherent state up to its turbulent present. Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia, and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions, both peaceful and military. As a result, modern Afghanistan is a culturally and ethnically diverse country, but one divided by conflict, political instability, and by mass displacements of its people. In this magisterial illustrated history, Jonathan L. Lee tells the story of how a small tribal confederacy in a politically and culturally significant but volatile region became a modern nation-state. Drawing on more than forty years of study, Lee places the current conflict in Afghanistan in its historical context and challenges many of the West’s preconceived ideas about the country. Focusing particularly on the powerful Durrani monarchy, which united the country in 1747 and ruled for nearly two and a half centuries, Lee chronicles the origins of the dynasty as clients of Safavid Persia and Mughal India: the reign of each ruler and their efforts to balance tribal, ethnic, regional, and religious factions; the struggle for social and constitutional reform; and the rise of Islamic and Communist factions. Along the way, he offers new cultural and political insights from Persian histories, the memoirs of Afghan government officials, British government and India Office archives, and recently released CIA reports and Wikileaks documents. He also sheds new light on the country’s foreign relations, its internal power struggles, and the impact of foreign military interventions such as the “War on Terror.”
A Brief History of Afghanistan
Author | : Shaista Wahab,Barry Youngerman |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : 9781438108193 |
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Located along the busy trade routes between Asia and Europe, Afghanistan was for centuries a place where a diverse set of cultures met and exchanged goods and ideas.
Afghanistan
Author | : Stephen Tanner |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2009-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786722631 |
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For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan in the weeks following September 11, 2001, they overthrew the Afghan Taliban regime and sent the terrorists it harbored on the run. But America's initial easy victory is in sharp contrast to the difficulties it faces today in confronting the Taliban resurgence. Originally published in 2002, Stephen Tanner's Afghanistan has now been completely updated to include the crucial turn of events since America first entered the country.
The History of Afghanistan
Author | : Meredith L. Runion |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9798216097013 |
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This chronological account traces the history of Afghanistan from pre-civilization to present-day events and considers the future of democracy in Afghanistan. For centuries, Afghanistan has endured control by a gamut of political regimes as a result of its strategic location along the trade route between Asia and the Middle East. The area has been at the center of constant conflict and only in recent years has recovered from the vestiges of warfare. The second edition of this popular reference offers a fresh glimpse at the country, showing modern Afghanistan to be a melting pot of cultures, tribes, and political influences all under the guiding belief of Islam. In addition to thorough coverage of the country's political, economic, and cultural history, the book provides students with an account of recent events in Afghanistan since 2007, such as the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and the removal of NATO soldiers. Other changes include a revised timeline, an updated glossary, additions to the notable figures appendix, and an expanded bibliography that includes electronic resources.
Afghanistan
Author | : Thomas Barfield |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2012-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691154411 |
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Traces the political history of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, looking at what has united the people as well as the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.
Games without Rules
Author | : Tamim Ansary |
Publsiher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781610390958 |
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out, and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation undermined by its own demons while, every 40 to 60 years, a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made. Told in conversational, storytelling style, and focusing on key events and personalities, Games without Rules provides revelatory insight into a country at the center of political debate.
Afghanistan
Author | : Martin Ewans |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : 9780415298261 |
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Reviews the emergence and fall of the Taliban, their ideology and their place within Islam, and examines Afghanistan's relevance to issues relating to Islamic extremism, the international drugs trade and international terrorism.
Afghanistan
Author | : John Charles Griffiths |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : 1842225979 |
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