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Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation

作者 Robert D. Crews
出版社 HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
商品描述 Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation:Rugged,remote,rivenbytribalrivalriesandreligiousviolence,Afghanistanseemstomanyacountryfrozenintimeandforsakenbyt

內容簡介

內容簡介 Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a country frozen in time and forsaken by the world. Afghan Modern presents a bold challenge to these misperceptions, revealing how Afghans, over the course of their history, have engaged and connected with a wider world and come to share in our modern globalized age.Always a mobile people, Afghan travelers, traders, pilgrims, scholars, and artists have ventured abroad for centuries, their cosmopolitan sensibilities providing a compass for navigating a constantly changing world. Robert Crews traces the roots of Afghan globalism to the early modern period, when, as the subjects of sprawling empires, the residents of Kabul, Kandahar, and other urban centers forged linkages with far-flung imperial centers throughout the Middle East and Asia. Focusing on the emergence of an Afghan state out of this imperial milieu, he shows how Afghan nation-making was part of a series of global processes, refuting the usual portrayal of Afghans as pawns in the “Great Game” of European powers and of Afghanistan as a “hermit kingdom.”In the twentieth century, the pace of Afghan interaction with the rest of the world dramatically increased, and many Afghan men and women came to see themselves at the center of ideological struggles that spanned the globe. Through revolution, war, and foreign occupations, Afghanistan became even more enmeshed in the global circulation of modern politics, occupying a pivotal position in the Cold War and the tumultuous decades that followed."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Robert D. CrewsRobert D. Crews is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University.

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書名 / Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation
作者 / Robert D. Crews
簡介 / Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation:Rugged,remote,rivenbytribalrivalriesandreligiousviolence,Afghanistanseemstomanyacountryfrozenintimeandforsakenbyt
出版社 / HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN13 / 9780674286092
ISBN10 / 067428609X
EAN / 9780674286092
誠品26碼 / 2682064144005
頁數 / 400
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裝訂 / H:精裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 22.1X14.7X3.1CM
級別 / N:無