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

By: Saikal, Amin, 1950-Contributor(s): Ravan Farhadi, A. G | Nourzhanov, KirillMaterial type: TextTextEdition: New revised paperback edition, New updated editionDescription: x, 389 pages : map ; 22 cmISBN: 9781780761220 (pbk.)Subject(s): Afghanistan -- History | Afghanistan -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 958.1 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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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.

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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