Fragments Of The Afghan Frontier

Author : Magnus Marsden
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849040729
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of the Afghan Frontier written by Magnus Marsden and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history and ethnography of the North-West Frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area of increasing strategic interest to the West

Author : Magnus Marsden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231800068
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of the Afghan Frontier written by Magnus Marsden and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's northwest territories has a long and violent past. Through a collage of historical narrative and ethnographic research, Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden counter the stereotypes and simplistic assessments that obscure a more accurate picture of this frontier, at the same time exposing the web of difficulties now facing local and international actors. This border region is anything but an isolated depot rife with radical terrorists and tribesmen. The frontier is rich with meaning, influenced by centuries of development by its inhabitants and their conceptions of those who operate outside their world. Fragments of the Afghan Frontier provides a deeper understanding of this evolving region, which grows more and more significant as the West steps up its counterterrorist campaigns.

Author : B. Hopkins
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Afghanistan written by B. Hopkins and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain’s imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the ‘Great Game’.

Author : Magnus Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190247980
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trading Worlds written by Magnus Marsden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. It contests one-sided images that depict traders from this and other conflict regions as immoral profiteers, the cronies of warlords or international drug smugglers. It shows, rather, the active role these merchants play in an ever-more globalized political economy. Afghan merchants, the author demonstrates, forge and occupy critical economic niches, both at home and abroad: from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, to the ports of the Black Sea; and in global cities such as Istanbul, Moscow and London, the traders' activities are shaping the material and cultural lives of the diverse populations among whom they live. Through an exploration of the life histories, trading activities and everyday experiences of these mobile merchants, Magnus Marsden shows that traders' worlds are informed by complex forms of knowledge, skill, ethical sensibility, and long-lasting human relationships that often cut across and dissolve boundaries of nation, ethnicity, religion and ideology.

Author : Septimus Smet Thorburn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385488044
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bannú. Or, Our Afghan Frontier written by Septimus Smet Thorburn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Septimus Smet Thorburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bannú, Or, Our Afghan Frontier written by Septimus Smet Thorburn and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Afghan frontier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fight or arbitrate? Or, How should we settle the Afghan frontier? written by Afghan frontier and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victoria Schofield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857710052
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghan Frontier written by Victoria Schofield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most dangerous place in the world' - Barack Obama The borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan have become the arena for a global conflict with consequences that defy prediction. At the crossroads of Central Asia, gateway to India and the West, Afghanistan has tempted countless invaders in their quest for domination. Written by leading regional expert Victoria Schofield, Afghan Frontier traces the history of this region as a hotly contested battlefield for millennia. As the borderlands - now dubbed 'Af-Pak' - assume an increasingly crucial role in international politics, understanding the history and geopolitical significance of this region has never been more important. Afghan Frontier is a gripping portrait of the frontier territories, militant fighters and resilient tribesmen who shaped Afghanistan.

Author : David B. Edwards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520200647
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes of the Age written by David B. Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards contends that Afghanistan's troubles derive less from foreign forces and the ideological divisions between groups than they do from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan itself.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849045087
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes written by Nile Green and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 themselves have made sense of their history. 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. As crucial sources on Afghans' own conceptions of state, society and culture, their writings help us understand the dominant and marginal, conflicting and changing, ways in which Afghans have understood the emergence of their own society and its relationships with the wider world.Based on new research in Afghan languages, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes opens up entirely fresh perspectives on Afghan political, social and cultural life, providing penetrating insights into the master narratives behind domestic and international conflict in Afghanistan.