The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan: Rule and Resistance in the Hindu Kush, Circa 600 Bce-600 CE

by Richard E. Payne

The territory of modern Afghanistan provided a center - and sometimes the center - for a succession of empires, from the Achaemenid Persians in the 6th century BCE until the Sasanian Iranians in the 7th century CE. And yet these regions most frequently appear as comprising a "crossroads" in accounts of their premodern history. This volume explores how successive imperial regimes established enduring forms of domination spanning the highlands of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447114533
• ISBN13: 9783447114530
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.