| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 430 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-417) and index. |
| Contents |
Explaining the Taliban's ability to mobilize the Pashtuns / Abdulkader Sinno -- The rise and fall of the Taliban / Neamatollah Nojumi -- The Taliban, women, and the Hegelian private sphere / Juan R.I. Cole -- Taliban and Talibanism in historical perspective / M. Nazif Shahrani -- Remembering the Taliban / Lutz Rzehak -- Fraternity, power, and time in Central Asia / Robert L. Canfield -- Moderate Taliban? / Robert D. Crews -- The Neo-Taliban / Amin Tarzi -- Epilogue : Afghanistan and the Pax Americana / Atiq Sarwari and Robert D. Crews. |
| Summary |
[This book] explores ... how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's future ... [It] investigates ... questions relating to the character of the Taliban, its evolution over time, and its capacity to affect the future of the region.--Dust jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Taliban.
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Taliban. (OCoLC)fst00743547
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Taliban.
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Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001.
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Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Afghanistan. (OCoLC)fst01205406
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Taliban.
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Taliban.
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Politieke crises.
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Afghanistan.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1989
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Crews, Robert D., 1970-
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Tarzi, Amin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008 9780674026902 067402690X (DLC) 2007031807 (OCoLC)154669125 |
| ISBN |
9780674030022 (electronic bk.) |
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0674030028 (electronic bk.) |
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