\ Amin Saikal ; with assistance from Ravan Farhadi and Kirill Nourzhanov
EDITION STATEMENT
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New revised paperback edition, New updated edition
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London
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: I.B. Tauris
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2012
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x, 389 pages
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First published in hardback in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD; first published in paperback in 2006 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD.
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Index
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Bibliography
CONTENTS NOTE
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From 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.