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Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad

Book by David B. Edwards; University of California Press, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--Saur Revolution, 1978, Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989

Collections: History, Entire Library

...This is the ur-event of Afghan nationalism and is described...sponsored journal of culture and history: After the assassination of...empire began to splinter. The Afghan contingent, headed by Mir Afghan Noor Mohammed Ghilzai and Ahmad...
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Holy Blood: An Inside View of the Afghan War

Book by Paul Overby; Praeger, 1993

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989--Personal Narratives, Overby, Paul--Travel--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...centralized power in recent Afghan history. But even the steely-willed...of the oral history of the Afghans. In 1893 Abdur Rahman paid...divided the Pashtuns and gave up Afghan territory in what is today...imperialism, pushing against Afghan resistance. Afghanistan became...
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Women of the Afghan War

Book by Deborah Ellis; Praeger Publishers, 2000

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--1989-, Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989--Personal Narratives, Oral History, Taliban, Women--Afghanistan--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...This was five months ago. Working for Afghan womens rights is a very, very dangerous...most problems we have faced during our history is from the law. Religious law. If you study the Afghan history, whenever we find an opportunity for...
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Falling Terrorism and Rising Conflicts: The Afghan "Contribution" to Polarization and Confrontation in West and South Asia

Book by Hooman Peimani; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--2001-, Terrorism, War On Terrorism, 2001-, World Politics--1989-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the necessity of a broad-based Afghan government with proportional representation for all Afghan ethnic groups as a prerequisite...create a government in which their Afghan allies dominate. The history of the last two decades has created...
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Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling

Book by Margaret A. Mills; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991

Subjects:

Folklore--Political Aspects--Afghanistan, Storytelling--Afghanistan, Tales--Afghanistan--Her?At (Province)

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...research strategy is a tendency in Afghan conversations to avoid the...direct queries about personal history, family composition, and so on are therefore awkward by Afghan social conversational standards...conversational etiquette, Afghan conversation employs a great...

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Journal Articles on: afghan history

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The Destruction and Rebuilding of the Afghan Air Force, 1989-2009

Journal article by Forrest L. Marion; Air Power History, Vol. 57, 2010

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Military aspects, Air forces--Laws, regulations and rules, Air forces--Powers and duties, Military policy--Interpretation and construction, United States foreign relations--Military aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...21s, of which the Afghans received several models...By the end of 1978, Afghans increasingly were in...western city of Herat, Afghan I1-28 bombers were...power in the countrys history to that time. (8...come to the current Afghan air power mission was...positive way of many Afghans in remote and inaccessible...Snapshots from our Aviation History," publication data...
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Sentinels of Afghan Democracy: the Afghan National Army

Journal article by Samuel Chan; Military Review, Vol. 89, 2009

Subjects:

Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Armed forces, Military aid, Minority & ethnic groups

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...important truths. First, the Afghan army will require financial...coalition forces leave the Afghans to "go it alone." One only...transcends merely showing Afghans what to do: it requires developing...partnership between coalition and Afghan army requires a large amount...with long and established histories often expect an army that...
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Afghan Women: Recovering, Rebuilding

Journal article by Sima Wali; Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 16, 2002

Subjects:

Afghans (Asian people)--Social aspects, Afghans--Social aspects, Muslim women--Civil rights, War on Terrorism, 2001---Social aspects, Women, Muslim--Civil rights

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Afghan Women: Recovering, Rebuilding...in Afghanistan has a long history of misguided plans and misplaced...physical infrastructure of Afghan society. Afghans contend that after having...The toll of the war on Afghan society reflected in current...
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Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier

Journal article by Scott Smith; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 51, 1997

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Books--Reviews, Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...what is unique about Afghan moral incoherence...incoherence of the tales Afghans tell and the moral incoherence of the Afghan front lines. One can...perpetuate themselves through history and across historical...its insinuation that Afghans--unlike ourselves...exchange between an Afghan and a Pakistani over...
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Gorm Pedersen (1994) Afghan Nomads in Transition, Ed. I. Nicolaisen

Journal article by Peter Alford Andrews; Nomadic Peoples, Vol. 9, 2005

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Afghan Nomads in Transition (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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Gorm Pedersen (1994) Afghan Nomads in Transition, Ed...Andrews Gorm Pedersen (1994) Afghan Nomads in Transition, ed...allowing him to document their history in the course of a century...controls in Iran. An Anglo-Afghan trade convention in 1921 formalised...

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Magazine Articles on: afghan history

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The Afghan Quagmire: David Loyn, the Only Reporter with the Taliban When They Took Kabul in 1996, Takes Issue with Military Historian Thomas Tulenko's Analysis of Britain's 19th-Century Invasions of Afghanistan, First Published in June 1980

Magazine article by David Loyn; History Today, Vol. 59, December 2009

Subjects:

Afghan history--Analysis, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Islamic fundamentalism--Influence, Nationalism--Analysis, Tulenko, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The Afghan Quagmire: David Loyn, the...fundamentalism as a driver of Afghan nationalism. The border between...alliances. Then as later, the Afghans were able to concentrate and...judgement that the Second Anglo-Afghan war had the most instructive...do not learn the lessons of history. But analyses of the challenge...
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Afghanistan and Gladstone's Moral Foreign Policy: Roland Quinault Discusses Gladstone's View of the Second Afghan War Both in Opposition and during His Premiership

Magazine article by Roland Quinault; History Today, Vol. 52, December 2002

Subjects:

Afghan Wars--History, Afghan Wars--Moral and ethical aspects, Afghanistan--History, Gladstone, William--Foreign relations, Gladstone, William--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...frivolous as ever was waged in the history of man, should be associated...the immediate cause of the Afghan war was relatively trivial...much public sympathy for the Afghans. The Liberal Daily News commented...that the money spent on the Afghan war should have been spent...Christian Europeans, whereas the Afghans were Muslim Asians who even...reproduced many pictures of Afghan people and places, made by...
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America and Afghanistan: A Troubled History : With the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, American Interest Quicklly Lapsed, Even Though the Afghan Conflict Had Helped to End the Cold War

Magazine article by Martin Ewans; World and I, Vol. 17, March 2002

Subjects:

Afghan foreign relations--United States, Afghanistan, United States, United States foreign relations--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and Afghanistan: A Troubled History : With the Soviet Withdrawal...Quicklly Lapsed, Even Though the Afghan Conflict Had Helped to End...quarter century later that the Afghan and U.S. administrations...Following World War II, Afghans were anxious to develop a relationship...was, in all but name, the Afghan Communist Party. The first...
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The Great Game and the Afghan Wars

Magazine article by Jeffrey Meyers; World and I, Vol. 17, January 2002

Subjects:

Afghan history, Afghanistan--History, Military history--Afghanistan, War on Terrorism, 2001---Planning

Collections: History, Entire Library

...AFGHAN WAR The First Afghan War (1838--42...greatest disaster in the history of the British army...constantly harassed by Afghan horsemen, and the retreat...intense hostility of the Afghans but were unable to prevent...domestic affairs. The Afghans had won--as Kipling...major powers. THIRD AFGHAN WAR The Afghan amirs...cavalry charge in the history of the British army...
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Fighting the Afghans in the 19th Century: Bruce Collins Considers the Mixture of Adventurism, Disaster and Lethal Reprisal That Marked British Activities in Afghanistan under Victoria

Magazine article by Bruce Collins; History Today, Vol. 51, December 2001

Subjects:

Afghanistan--19th century, Military art and science--Analysis, Military history--Analysis, Military policy--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--Relations with Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...eighteenth-century Afghans had been the arbiters...organisation of the Afghan army drastically reduced...with eighteen prominent Afghan chiefs that they would...appalling reverses in the history of British imperial...ruthlessly attacked by the Afghans at the pass at Jagdullak...surviving food shortages and Afghan attacks until the Peshawar...

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Newspaper Articles on: afghan history

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America Mourns Its Heroes; Afghan Casualties Linked to Military Sacrifice throughout U.S. History

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 10, 2011

Subjects:

American soldiers--Casualties, Civil war--Afghanistan, Civil war--Casualties, Civil war--History, Civil war--United States, War--Casualties, Wars--Casualties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...America Mourns Its Heroes; Afghan Casualties Linked to Military Sacrifice throughout U.S. History. Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES...deadliest such event of the Afghan War, the 22 of the fallen...intermingled body parts of the Afghan troops on the mission were...
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General Gets on Tricycle to Study Afghan History

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 23, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...General Gets on Tricycle to Study Afghan History. Byline: Louise Jury Chief Arts...Great Game, a series of plays about Afghan history, at the Tricycle, Kilburn...understand the history and culture of the Afghan people we are so determined to help...
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Afghan Atrocities and Jihadist Victories; Left Has a History of Using Aberrations to Besmirch America's Military

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), March 28, 2011

Subjects:

Civilian casualties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Afghan Atrocities and Jihadist Victories; Left Has a History of Using Aberrations to Besmirch...confessed to murdering three Afghan civilians in 2009 and 2010...where hunting down innocent Afghans became a form of sport. But...entire U.S. military or the Afghan war effort. These are not...
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Afghan Foreign Minister: America's Democracy 'Achieves Higher Maturity'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 29, 2009

Subjects:

Afghan foreign relations, Foreign ministers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Afghan Foreign Minister: Americas...Americans across the globe watched history being made, as Mr. Obama...opened a new chapter in the history of the oppressed and persecuted...divisive theses of End of History and Clash of Civilizations...
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Movie Controversy Forces Afghan Actors to Flee Home

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 14, 2007

Subjects:

Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...are deeply rooted in Afghan culture. The producers...will be so offensive to Afghans that he fears for his...racial tensions and Afghan notions of masculinity...throughout Afghan history, he said. Since Hassan...American Society of Afghan Professionals. "Its...father told CNN that many Afghans would believe that the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: afghan history

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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...divided into 34 provinces. History Early History The location...lieutenant, Ahmad Shah , an Afghan tribal leader, established...dynasty, the Durrani, gave the Afghans the name (Durrani) that...themselves frequently use. The Afghan Wars and Independence The...between the British and the Afghans. Dost Muhammad was at first...
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Pakistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...provinces and two territories. History Early History The northwest of the Indian...in the late 1730s; by the Afghans, who held Sind and the Punjab...northwest during the First Afghan War (1839 42) and succeeded...tribespeople in the Second Afghan War (1878 80) but were still...
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Iran

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...divided into 30 provinces. History Early History to the Zand...dynasty was brought about by the Afghans, who overthrew the weak shah...in 1722. An interval of Afghan rule followed until Nadir...Empire, was taken by the Afghans. A series of campaigns to...resulted in the recognition of Afghan independence by Iran in 1857...
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India

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to the Jains. With its long and rich history, India retains many outstanding archaeological...28 states and seven union territories. History The historical discussion that follows...Pakistan , and thereafter concentrates on the history of India. From the Indus Valley to the...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...provisional government of Russia. The history of the provisional government, the Revolution...of the Russian Empire (for its earlier history see Russia ) as it had emerged from the...great men and events in pre-1917 Russian history were extolled in literature (e.g...

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