In Afghanistan : two hundred years of British, Russian and American occupation
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- ISBN: 9780230614031
- ISBN: 0230614035
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Physical Description:
xxi, 266 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251-255]) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- pt. 1. First encounters and the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1808-1842 -- Wild and strange -- A war of robbery -- Retreat -- pt. 2. Russian moves and the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1842-1880 -- The great game -- "Afghanistan as a whole could no longer exist" -- pt. 3. Making the frontier: the third Anglo-Afghan war and Afghan reform, 1880-1933 -- The Oasis War and the Durand Line -- "Tribes generally are rising" -- Bolt from the blue -- pt. 4. Revolution and the Soviet invasion, 1973-1994 -- "Muslim reactionaries" -- Charlie horse -- "Fighting to the last Afghan" -- pt. 5. The Taliban and the U.S.-led invasion, 1994-2008 -- Virtue and vice -- Sons of Dost -- The cheaper man. |
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