Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation

by Robert D. Crews

Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a country frozen in time and forsaken by the world. Afghan Modern presents a bold challenge to these misperceptions, revealing how Afghans, over the course of their history, have engaged and connected with a wider world and come to share in our modern globalized age.

Always a mobile people, Afghan travelers, traders, pilgrims, scholars, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067428609X
• ISBN13: 9780674286092
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.7"