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Author : Les Bell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912181
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book American Engineer in Afghanis written by Les Bell and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1948 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. C. Jewett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book An American Engineer in Afghanistan written by A. C. Jewett and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amin Saikal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714783
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Modern Afghanistan written by Amin Saikal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan's recent history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime; and then the US invasion and the multi-national occupation after the events of 11 September 2001. Why does Afghanistan remain so vulnerable to domestic instability, foreign intervention and ideological extremism? In reconstructing the tempestuous narrative of modern Afghanistan, Amin Saikal provides a sweeping new understanding of its troubled past and present. He identifies the country's inability to develop stable political structures as stemming from the inter-dynastic rivalry (complicated by polygamy) that scarred successive royal families from the end of the eighteenth century until the pro-Soviet Communist coup of April 1978, all exacerbated by foreign interventions - feeding on fragile domestic structures - and the rise and fall of different ideological streams. Here, for the first time, is an up-to-date analysis of the era of the Taliban's rule, the effects of US domination in the country and attempts to negotiate a US withdrawal - including talks about talks with the Taliban themselves. This book, which sets the crisis of Afghanistan in the context of the country's modern history and social structures, makes a major and highly original contribution towards a better and more nuanced understanding of this ill-fated land. It is the definitive study of Afghanistan and its troubles in national, regional and international contexts from 1747 to the present day.
Author : Jeffery Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057389
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan written by Jeffery Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Afghanistan's relations with the West during the latter half of the 20th century, this study offers new insights on the long-term origins of the nation's recent tragedies. Roberts finds that, since the 1930s in particular, Afghanistan pursued policies far more complex, and considerably more pro-Western, than previous studies have surmised. By the end of the Second World War, Britain and Afghanistan seemed headed toward an extensive partnership in military and economic affairs. Opportunities to cement Afghanistan to the West existed, but ultimately ran afoul of regional politics, shortsighted policy, and indifference. The rise of the Indian nationalist movement and the eventual partition of India would have strategic ramifications for Afghanistan. Pakistan and India, weakened and poised against each other, saw no reason to aid the Kabul regime, leaving only the United States as a potential benefactor. Successive American administrations, however, denied most Afghan requests. When the Eisenhower administration extended support to Pakistan, it alienated Afghan leaders, who then chose to broker a deal with the Soviet Union. Roberts analyzes recent American policy toward Afghanistan and its neighbors, clarifying the current situation and offering guidelines for future relations.
Author : John F. Shroder
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128005459
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Natural Resources in Afghanistan written by John F. Shroder and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography — namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background and terrain landforms — together with details of its rich natural resources, ethnic problems, and relevant past histories. The book couples these details with the challenges of environmental degradation and new environmental management and protection, all of which are considered finally in both pessimistic and optimistic modes. The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of the issues that are likely to have great affect for this pivotal region of the world for decades to come. With an estimated $1-3 trillion dollars of ore in the ground, and multiple cross-reinforcing cancellations of big Asian power machinations (China, India, Iran, Pakistan), Afghanistan has an opportunity to gain more economic independence. At the same time, however, historic forces of negativity also pull it back toward the chaos and uncertainty that has defined the country and constrained its economic progress for decades. - Authored by the world's foremost expert on the geology and geomorphology of Afghanistan and its lucrative natural resources - Aids in the understanding of the physical environment, natural hazards, climate-change situations, and natural resources in one of the most geographically diverse and dangerous terrains in the world - Provides new concepts of resource-corridor development in a country with no indigenous expertise of its resources
Author : Warwick Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192573357
Total Pages : 1714 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan written by Warwick Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 1714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1982, the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan has become the main reference work for the archaeology of Afghanistan, and the standard sites and monuments record for the region; archaeological sites are now referred to under their Gazetteer catalogue number as routine in academic literature, and the volume has become a key text for developing research in the area. This revised and updated edition has been significantly expanded to incorporate new field-work and discoveries, as well as older field-work more recently published, and presents new cases of synthesis and unpublished material from private archives. New discoveries include the Rabatak inscription detailing the genealogy of the Kushan kings, a huge archive of Bactrian documents, Aramaic documents from Balkh on the last days of the Persian empire, a new Greek inscription from Kandahar, two tons of coins from Mir Zakah, a Sasanian relief of Shapur at Rag-i Bibi, a Buddhist monastic 'city' at Kharwar, new discoveries of Buddhist art at Mes Aynak and Tepe Narenj, and a newly revealed city at the Minaret of Jam. With over 1500 catalogue entries, supplemented with concordance material, site plans, drawings, and detailed maps prepared from satellite imagery, the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan: Revised Edition is the most comprehensive reference work on the archaeology and monuments of the region ever undertaken. Cataloguing all recorded sites and monuments from the earliest times to the Timurid period, this volume will be an invaluable contribution to the renewed interest in Afghanistan's cultural heritage and an essential resource for students and researchers.
Author : Timothy Nunan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107112079
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Humanitarian Invasion written by Timothy Nunan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fry
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004491112
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Afghan Economy written by Fry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maxwell J. Fry
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004039865
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Afghan Economy written by Maxwell J. Fry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1974 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph presenting an economic analysis of the obstacles to rapid economic growth in Afghanistan - examines the low development potential of the country, economic planning, financial policy, the agricultural economy, industry, tax reform, banking, public finance, the foreign trade sector, the money supply, etc. Bibliography pp. 301 to 316, graphs, map, references and statistical tables.
Author : Robert D. Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067428609X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Afghan Modern written by Robert D. Crews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a forsaken country frozen in time. Robert Crews presents a bold challenge to this misperception. During their long history, Afghans have engaged and connected with a wider world, occupying a pivotal position in the Cold War and the decades that followed.
Author : R.D. McChesney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755645855
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)
Download or read book An Afghan Prince in Victorian England written by R.D. McChesney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 Great Britain invited 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit. Then at the height of its imperial might, Britain sought to strengthen ties with the strategically important Afghanistan, which shared a long frontier, not yet a border, with British India. The amir's aim for the visit was to secure permission for an Afghan legation (embassy) in London while the British, unaware of this goal, hoped to overawe the amir with displays of military and industrial might as well as performances to show the strength and unity of British civil society. The amir, citing illness, ultimately declined the invitation but, in a calculated snub, sent his second son, Prince Nasr Allah Khan, in his place. This book narrates the events of the prince's mission in a number of revealing ways. Using both British and Afghan sources, including the journal of a senior member of the Afghan contingent, McChesney places the visit in its international and historical context and analyzes the internal dynamics of the prince's delegation, the seventy members of whom represented Afghanistan but included two Englishmen and two Englishwomen. A further twenty members, representing the Government of (British) India, were as multi-ethnic and multilingual as the members of the Afghan delegation. This bilateral and complex mission left India in April 1895 and remained together for the next six months. From the beginning it was riven by incidents of misogyny, racism, and class conflict that affected its ability to perform its diplomatic functions. The reader gains insights into the goals and tactics of two asymmetrical yet competing powers as well as a rare look at the human element in this cross-cultural diplomatic encounter.
Author : Thomas B. Robertson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987805
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Transplanting Modernity? written by Thomas B. Robertson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In general, “development” denotes movement or growth toward something better in the future. International development—widespread in the decades following World War II—was an effort at purposeful changein landscapes around the world. Contributors to this volume argue that these projects constituted an effort to transplant modernity, such as knowledge or technology, from places seen as more developed to places perceived as un- or underdeveloped. During its heyday, international development included not just dams, roads, health programs, and agricultural projects but also animal husbandry schemes, urban development, and wildlife protection plans. Projects often succeeded or failed because of existing environmental conditions, and in turn, these programs remade—or tried to remake—the land, water, wildlife, and people around them. From American-directed failures in water engineering in Afghanistan to the impact of livestock epidemics on economic growth in East Africa, the chapters in Transplanting Modernity question how science, technology, and faith in Western notions of progress have influenced the pace, scope, and scale of development.
Author : Richard F. Nyrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Richard F. Nyrop and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book British India with Notes on Ceylon, Afghanistan, and Tibet written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Forsyth
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601097
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book A Year in Command in Afghanistan written by Michael J. Forsyth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 2009-2010 combat tour in Afghanistan, battalion commander Lt. Col. Michael J. Forsyth kept a daily journal. In it he candidly wrote about his daily interactions with the Afghan government, citizens, security forces, and his intermittent conflict with the enemy. As the deployment progressed, the journal reveals that his initial expectations for peace in Afghanistan were tempered by his experiences and encounters. In the process, Col. Forsyth learned critical lessons in leadership and changed his thinking about realistic goals that can be accomplished in Afghanistan. The journal, and its subsequent annotations, also provides a glimpse into how the U.S. Army functions at the unit level and what America's soldiers do on a daily basis.
Author : Robert B. Rakove
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231558422
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Days of Opportunity written by Robert B. Rakove and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul’s conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country’s political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan.
