01725cam a2200253 i 4500 115475 20230410103822.0 140331b2008 xxkab 000 0 eng | 9781405182430 401 DS 357.5 V879a 2008 Vogelsang, Willem The afghans / Willem Vogelsang Paperback first edition. United Kingdom : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 xii, 394 p.: ill., maps Update of the 2002 hardback edition. Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-376) and index. Up and down the Hindu Kush -- The peoples of Afghanistan -- The early years -- The advent of the Indo-Iranian speaking peoples -- Archaeology and the Indo-Iranians -- Scythian Horsemen -- Opening up to the West -- The Greeks -- Northern rulers -- The reassertion of the Iranian west -- The advent of Islam -- The Iranian dynasties -- The Mongols -- Towards the kingdom of Afghanistan -- The Sadozay dynasty -- War with Britain -- The Dynasty of Amir 'Abad al-Rahman Khan -- Changing Afghanistan -- The years of communism -- After the soviets. The Afghans brings together different outside perspectives to form one coherent story, telling the dramatic history of the land and peoples of Afghanistan from prehistoric times to the present day. For this updated paperback edition, the author has provided a new final chapter covering developments since 2001, including the fall of the Taliban, state building and foreign intervention in the region. The bibliography has also been updated. -- Cover Afghanistan History. Afganistán Historia. lcc bk rsfv 26449 26449 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 1 0 401 DS 357.5 V879a 2008 00000108904 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk