Modern Afghanistan : a history of struggle and survival / Amin Saikal ; with assistance from Ravan Farhadi and Kirill Nourzhanov.

By:

Saikal, Amin, 1950-

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TextPublisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2012Edition: New revised paperback edition, New updated editionDescription: x, 389 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781780761220 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

958.1 23 391D

LOC classification:

DS359 .S24 2012

Contents:

From tribal confederacy to national coalescence -- National awakening and nationalism -- Independence and radical modernisation -- The Nadiri dynasty: politics of national gradualism and 'royal dualism' -- The cold war and the rise of a rentier state -- Experiment with a democracy, 1963-1973 -- Daoud's republicanism -- Communist rule, the Soviet invasion and resistance -- Mujahideen Islamic rule and Taliban extremism -- US intervention and the Karzai era.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	PIPS Library	NFIC	958.1 SAI-M 391(D) (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	391(D)

First published in hardback in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD; first published in paperback in 2006 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-380) and index.

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