Games Without Rules The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

Name: Games Without Rules The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
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ISBN: 9781610393195

ISBN-10: 1610393198

ISBN-13: 9781610393195

Edition: N/A

Authors: Tamim Ansary

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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out, and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation undermined by its own demons while,…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 3/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English