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Thomas J. Barfield Afghanistan (Paperback). Author: Thomas J. Barfield. Title: Afghanistan. A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture. Format: Paperback. Release Date: 12/06/2022. Topic: Social Sciences, History, Society & Culture. Further DetailsTitle: Afghanistan Condition: New Description: A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. Barfield vividly describes how Afghanistan's armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan's isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily.Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and why the United States failed to avoid the same fate. Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0691238561 Subtitle: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition EAN: 9780691238562 ISBN: 9780691238562 Publisher: Princeton University Press Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Genre: Law & Politics Topic: Social Sciences, History, Society & Culture Release Date: 12/06/2022 Language: English Item Weight: 540g Release Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
