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The tragedy of Afghanistan : the social, cultural, and political impact of the Soviet invasion
- Title
- The tragedy of Afghanistan : the social, cultural, and political impact of the Soviet invasion / edited by Bo Huldt and Erland Jansson.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Croom Helm, ©1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS371.2 .H84 1988 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 270 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Published under the auspices of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies qnd index.
- Contents
- Part I : Ethnicity and the new nationalism -- When Muslim identity has different meanings : religion and politics in contemporary Afghanistan / Asger Christensen -- Cultural changes among the Mujahidin and Muhajerin / Louis Dupree -- Concepts of personal, moral and social disorder among Durrani Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan / Nancy and Richard Tapper -- The Kushans -- an Afghan search for roots / Richard N. Frye -- Ethnic factors in Afghanistan's future / Eden Naby -- Part II : Afghan learning and education -- Past and present education in Afghanistan -- a problem for the future / Sayd B. Majrooh -- Scholars, saints and Sufis in modern Afghanistan / Bo Utas -- Modern political culture and traditional resistance / Olivier Roy -- Afghan education during the the war / Batinshah Safi -- Part III : The war -- Modernisation from below : the Afghan resistance between the fight for liberation and social emancipation / Jan-Heeren Grevemeyer -- A local perspective on the incipient resistance in Afghanistan / Jan Ovesen -- The Afghan resistance : achievements and problems / Mohammad Es'haq -- An assessment of the new Mujaheddin alliance / Sabahuddin Kushkaki -- Part IV : Ecology -- Ecology and the war in Afghanistan / Terje Skogland -- Effects of the war on agriculture / Mohammad Qasim Yusufi -- Part V : The exile -- What happens to honour in exile? Continuity and change among Afghan refugees / Inger W. Boesen -- Afghan nomads trapped in Pakistan / Bernt Glatzer -- The role of the VOLAGs / Nancy Hatch Dupree.
- ISBN
- 0709957084
- 9780709957089
- LCCN
- 87033287
- OCLC
- ocm17232359
- 17232359
- SCSB-14424745
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library