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The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (443 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674030022
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Taliban and the Crisis of AfghanistanDDC classification:
  • 958.104/6
LOC classification:
  • DS371.3 .T354 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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