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Afghanistan and Central Asia - A Modern History (Hardcover)
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Afghanistan and Central Asia - A Modern History (Hardcover)
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The Afghan crisis has grabbed the attention of the entire world,
and underlined the desperate need in the West for a better
understanding of the region and its challenges in the face of
increasingly militant interpretations of Islam. Carved up and
fought over by the British and Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth
century, and under Soviet domination for much of the twentieth, the
lonely passes, deserts and peoples of the five Central Asian
republics have remained shrouded in obscurity. Even Afghanistan,
the site of almost constant conflict since the Soviet invasion of
1978, is little known beyond the media images of the Islamic
fundamentalist Taliban movement. Martin McCauley draws on his vast
knowledge of the region and its history to provide a clear and
highly readable account of Afghanistan and the Central Asian
republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tasikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, from their medieval pasts to the unpredictable present.
Illuminating languages and landscapes, cultures and society, he
examines the rise of militant Islam and its impact on the region,
the push and pull of global economics and politics, and
possibilities for stability in an inherently unstable part of the
world.
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