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A Thousand Golden Cities: 2500 Years of the Finest Writing on Afghanistan (Hardcover)
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A Thousand Golden Cities: 2500 Years of the Finest Writing on Afghanistan (Hardcover)
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In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in
recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless
media coverage of the “War on Terror”, it has become synonymous
above all with war and terrorism – from the Taliban to Al Qaeda
and the so-called Islamic State – crushing levels of poverty and
immiseration. In ways which would have been familiar to both
Herodotus in the fourth century BC and Ibn Khaldun in the
fourteenth AD, it has also come to represent the latest testing
ground for imperial hubris and overexpansion, another tomb in the
“graveyard of empires”. This is an extraordinarily reductive
and one-dimensional portrait of a nation. Afghanistan is, and
always has been, vastly more interesting than that. Its long and
tumultuous history at the centre of the world, at the heart of
cultural exchanges between East and West, encompasses high culture,
low politics, domestic dynasties, international adventures, Great
Power rivalry and a completely compelling vein of skulduggery. This
anthology will celebrate this rich, engrossing heritage with a
captivating blend of history and geography, religion and culture,
politics and poetry, drama and memoir, home-grown fiction and the
self-serving literature of invaders. It will celebrate Afghan
voices as much as those of foreigners who, for better or worse,
have been bewitched by this staggeringly beautiful mountain
kingdom.
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Imprint: |
Head of Zeus
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Justin Marozzi
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
608 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80328-535-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-80328-535-4 |
Barcode: |
9781803285351 |
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