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 artists have ventured
abroad for centuries, their cosmopolitan sensibilities providing a
compass for navigating a constantly changing world. Robert Crews
traces the roots of Afghan globalism to the early modern period,
when, as the subjects of sprawling empires, the residents of Kabul,
Kandahar, and other urban centers forged linkages with far-flung
imperial centers throughout the Middle East and Asia. Focusing on
the emergence of an Afghan state out of this imperial milieu, he
shows how Afghan nation-making was part of a series of global
processes, refuting the usual portrayal of Afghans as pawns in the
"Great Game" of European powers and of Afghanistan as a "hermit
kingdom." In the twentieth century, the pace of Afghan interaction
with the rest of the world dramatically increased, and many Afghan
men and women came to see themselves at the center of ideological
struggles that spanned the globe. Through revolution, war, and
foreign occupations, Afghanistan became even more enmeshed in the
global circulation of modern politics, occupying a pivotal position
in the Cold War and the tumultuous decades that followed.
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