[PDF] Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
▲ Thomas Barfield ▲
| #50142 in Books | 2012-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.75 x6.00 x1.25l,.80 | File Name: 0691154414 | 408 pages
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Scholarly insight into a very complex culture|By Albert L Brewster|I was called to Kabul Afghanistan last August 2012 in response to the Green on Blue murders of 3 of our Border Management Task Force contractors. After 26 years in the military I've seen plenty of war torn countries but this trip to Afghanistan sent me on a mission to better understand what was obviously an ex||"[I]mpressive."--Christopher de Bellaigue, New York of Books
"This book is an authoritative and well-written summary of what we might call the majority view. There is a streak in this book, however, of more radical thinking. . . . I
Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these...
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