Thomas Barfield

War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History (eBook, ePUB)

From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain the difficulties besetting this newest experiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 62
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400843145
• Artikelnr.: 38286501

Autorenporträt

Thomas Barfield is professor of anthropology at Boston University. His books include The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757; The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan; and Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture.