Afghan history through Afghan eyes

Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the ways in which Afghans have made sense of their history themselves...

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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Zusammenfassung:
Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the ways in which Afghans have made sense of their history themselves. Radically questioning received ideas about how to understand Afghanistan, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes asks how Afghan intellectuals, ideologues and ordinary people have understood their collective past. The book brings together the leading international specialists to focus on case studies of the Dari, Pashto and Uzbek histories which Afghans have produced in abundance since the formation of the Afghan state in the mid-eighteenth century.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-049223-6
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