000455515 000__ 03262cam\a2200529Ia\4500 000455515 001__ 455515 000455515 005__ 20210513160457.0 000455515 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000455515 007__ cr\ununnnunnun 000455515 008__ 130308s2012\\\\nyub\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000455515 020__ $$a9781610390958 (electronic bk.) 000455515 020__ $$a1610390954 (electronic bk.) 000455515 020__ $$z9781610390941 (alk. paper) 000455515 020__ $$z1610390946 (alk. paper) 000455515 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn818818421 000455515 035__ $$a(OCoLC)818818421 000455515 035__ $$a455515 000455515 040__ $$aEBLCP$$beng$$cEBLCP$$dYDXCP$$dOCLCQ$$dN$T$$dWAU$$dTEFOD 000455515 049__ $$aISEA 000455515 05014 $$aDS361$$b.A755 2012eb 000455515 08204 $$a958.1 000455515 1001_ $$aAnsary, Mir Tamim. 000455515 24510 $$aGames without rules$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe often interrupted history of Afghanistan /$$cTamim Ansary. 000455515 250__ $$a1st ed. 000455515 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPublicAffairs,$$cc2012. 000455515 300__ $$a1 online resource (xvi, 397 p.) :$$bmaps. 000455515 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000455515 5050_ $$aPART I. AFGHANISTAN BECOMES A COUNTRY -- PART II. ONE COUNTRY, TWO WORLDS -- PART III. KABUL RULES -- PART IV. OLD AFGHANISTAN ERUPTS -- PART V. THE STRUGGLE RESUMES. 000455515 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000455515 520__ $$aFive times in the last two centuries. some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim Ansary shows in this illuminating history, every intervention has come to grief for much the same reason: the intervening power has failed to understand that Afghanistan has a story of its own, a story that continues to unfold between--and despite--the interventions. Drawing on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources, Ansary weaves an epic that moves from a universe of village republics--the old Afghanistan--through a tumultuous drama of tribes. factions, and forces, to the current struggle. Ansary paints a richly textured portrait of a nation that began to form around the same time as the United States but is still struggling to coalesce; a nation driven by its high ambitions but undermined by its own demons, while every forty to sixty years a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made.--From publisher description. 000455515 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000455515 650_0 $$aMilitary occupation$$xHistory. 000455515 650_0 $$aBritish$$zAfghanistan$$xHistory. 000455515 650_0 $$aRussians$$zAfghanistan$$xHistory. 000455515 650_0 $$aAmericans$$zAfghanistan$$xHistory. 000455515 651_0 $$aAfghanistan$$xHistory. 000455515 651_0 $$aAfghanistan$$xHistory, Military. 000455515 651_0 $$aAfghanistan$$xStrategic aspects. 000455515 651_0 $$aAfghanistan$$xPolitics and government. 000455515 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000455515 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aAnsary, Mir Tamim.$$tGames without rules.$$b1st ed.$$dNew York : PublicAffairs, c2012$$z9781610390941$$w(DLC) 2012025651$$w(OCoLC)778420376 000455515 8520_ $$bacq 000455515 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000455515 85640 $$3EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=503049$$zOnline Access 000455515 8564_ $$3Image$$uhttp://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{E9956D2A-DE9A-4EB2-84EF-142CB8B8590B}Img100.jpg 000455515 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:455515$$pGLOBAL_SET 000455515 980__ $$aEBOOK 000455515 980__ $$aBIB 000455515 982__ $$aEbook 000455515 983__ $$aOnline 000455515 994__ $$a92$$bISE 000455515 999__ $$z634982555426928785