Crews, Robert D. <br/><br/>
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (443 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674030022 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Taliban.<br/>Afghan War, 2001-.<br/>Afghanistan--History--1989-2001.<br/>Afghanistan--History--2001-.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS371.3 .T354 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.104/6