Afghan history through Afghan eyes

• Verfasst von: Green, Nile [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Afghan history through Afghan eyes
• Verf.angabe: Nile Green
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white)
• Fussnoten: Previously issued in print: 2016. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2016)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-049223-6
• DOI: doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190247782.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1655937030
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the ways in which Afghans have made sense of their history themselves. Radically questioning received ideas about how to understand Afghanistan, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes asks how Afghan intellectuals, ideologues and ordinary people have understood their collective past. The book brings together the leading international specialists to focus on case studies of the Dari, Pashto and Uzbek histories which Afghans have produced in abundance since the formation of the Afghan state in the mid-eighteenth century.