000351547 000__ 03784cam\a2200445Ia\4500 000351547 001__ 351547 000351547 005__ 20210513125933.0 000351547 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000351547 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000351547 008__ 110520s2010\\\\njuab\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000351547 010__ $$z 2010002082 000351547 019__ $$a647927127 000351547 020__ $$a9781400834532$$q(electronic book) 000351547 020__ $$z9780691145686 000351547 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn701229182 000351547 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386042 000351547 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC530320 000351547 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000351547 05014 $$aDS357.5$$b.B37 2010eb 000351547 08204 $$a958.1$$222 000351547 1001_ $$aBarfield, Thomas J.$$q(Thomas Jefferson),$$d1950- 000351547 24510 $$aAfghanistan$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba cultural and political history /$$cThomas Barfield. 000351547 260__ $$aPrinceton :$$bPrinceton University Press,$$cc2010. 000351547 300__ $$a1 online resource (xi, 389 p.) :$$bill., maps. 000351547 4901_ $$aPrinceton studies in Muslim politics 000351547 500__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000351547 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000351547 5050_ $$aPeople and places -- Conquering and ruling pre-modern Afghanistan -- Anglo-Afghan Wars and state building in Afghanistan -- Afghanistan in the twentieth century : state and society in conflict -- Afghanistan enters the twenty-first century -- Some conclusions. 000351547 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000351547 520__ $$aThis work 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. The author 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. He 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. This book helps the reader 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 what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate. 000351547 650_0 $$aIslam and politics$$zAfghanistan$$xHistory. 000351547 651_0 $$aAfghanistan$$xPolitics and government. 000351547 651_0 $$aAfghanistan$$xHistory. 000351547 651_0 $$aAfghanistan$$xSocial conditions. 000351547 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aBarfield, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson, 1950-$$tAfghanistan.$$dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, 2010$$z9780691145686$$w(DLC) 2010002082$$w(OCoLC)466341401 000351547 830_0 $$aPrinceton studies in Muslim politics. 000351547 8520_ $$bacq 000351547 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000351547 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 000351547 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=530320$$zOnline access 000351547 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=530320$$zOnline access 000351547 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:351547$$pGLOBAL_SET 000351547 980__ $$aEBOOK$$aEBOOK 000351547 980__ $$aBIB 000351547 982__ $$aEbook 000351547 983__ $$aOnline