Saikal, Amin,  1950- <br/><br/>
Modern Afghanistan :  a history of struggle and survival / 
Amin Saikal ; with assistance from Ravan Farhadi and Kirill Nourzhanov. 
 - New revised paperback edition, New updated edition. 
 - x, 389 pages :  map ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> First published in hardback in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD; first published in paperback in 2006 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-380) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780761220 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012371914 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afghanistan--History.<br/>Afghanistan--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS359  / .S24 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.1