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The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan / edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Afghanistan--History--1989-2001.
- Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--History--2001-.
- Taliban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Grounding their analysis in a deep understanding of the country's past, leading scholars of Afghan history, politics, society, and culture show how the Taliban was less an attempt to revive a medieval theocracy than a dynamic, complex, and adaptive force rooted in the history of Afghanistan and shaped by modern international politics.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Maps; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Explaining the Taliban's Ability to Mobilize the Pashtuns; 2. The Rise and Fall of the Taliban; 3. The Taliban, Women, and the Hegelian Private Sphere; 4. Taliban and Talibanism in Historical Perspective; 5. Remembering the Taliban; 6. Fraternity, Power, and Time in Central Asia; 7. Moderate Taliban?; 8. The Neo-Taliban; Epilogue: Afghanistan and the Pax Americana; Notes; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-417) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674262867
- 0674262867
- 9780674030022
- 0674030028
- OCLC:
- 456412511
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