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008			121101s2012 enkb b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781780761220 (pbk.)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda
082	7	4	_a958.1 _223 _bS132
100	1		_aSaikal, Amin, _d1950- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aModern Afghanistan : _ba history of struggle and survival / _cAmin Saikal ; with assistance from Ravan Farhadi and Kirill Nourzhanov.
250			_aNew revised paperback edition, New updated edition.
264		1	_aLondon : _bI.B. Tauris, _c2012.
300			_ax, 389 pages : _bmap ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent _btxt
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia _bn
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier _bnc
500			_aFirst published in hardback in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD; first published in paperback in 2006 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 361-380) and index.
505	0		_aFrom tribal confederacy to national coalescence -- National awakening and nationalism -- Independence and radical modernisation -- The Nadiri dynasty: politics of national gradualism and 'royal dualism' -- The cold war and the rise of a rentier state -- Experiment with a democracy, 1963-1973 -- Daoud's republicanism -- Communist rule, the Soviet invasion and resistance -- Mujahideen Islamic rule and Taliban extremism -- US intervention and the Karzai era.
651		0	_aAfghanistan _xHistory.
700	1		_aRavan Farhadi, A. G.
700	1		_aNourzhanov, Kirill.
910			_aASEEL
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