02437nam 2200553Ia 450 991095429580332120200520144314.09780674262867067426286797806740300220674030028(CKB)1000000000805687(EBL)3300502(OCoLC)456412511(Au-PeEL)EBL3300502(CaPaEBR)ebr10318498(MiAaPQ)EBC3300502(Perlego)1147099(EXLCZ)99100000000080568720070802d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan /edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20081 online resource (448 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780674032248 0674032241 Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-417) and index.CONTENTS; Maps; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Explaining the Taliban's Ability to Mobilize the Pashtuns; 2. The Rise and Fall of the Taliban; 3. The Taliban, Women, and the Hegelian Private Sphere; 4. Taliban and Talibanism in Historical Perspective; 5. Remembering the Taliban; 6. Fraternity, Power, and Time in Central Asia; 7. Moderate Taliban?; 8. The Neo-Taliban; Epilogue: Afghanistan and the Pax Americana; Notes; Contributors; Acknowledgments; IndexGrounding their analysis in a deep understanding of the country's past, leading scholars of Afghan history, politics, society, and culture show how the Taliban was less an attempt to revive a medieval theocracy than a dynamic, complex, and adaptive force rooted in the history of Afghanistan and shaped by modern international politics.Afghan War, 2001-2021AfghanistanHistory1989-2001AfghanistanHistory2001-Afghan War, 2001-2021.958.1046Crews Robert D.1970-1808208Tarzi Amin1146710MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954295803321The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan4358751UNINA