Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520228596
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0520228618
Content:
Lowell Thomas needed another adventure. At age twenty-eight, the ambitious showman from Cripple Creek, Colorado, had become an international celebrity through his immensely popular lecture tour With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia. Charming appreciative audiences and collecting handsome receipts, Thomas had spent most of 1920 and 1921 traveling the length and breadth of the British Commonwealth from Scotland to India to Malaya to Australia and his show had been seen by several million people. Two years into it, however, he was feeling the need for an encore, and Edmund Allenby and T. E. Lawrence were a hard act to follow Lawrence in particular.
Content:
In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord, destruction, and despair. Before Taliban builds on the foundation that Edwards laid in his previous book, Heroes of the Age, in which he examines the lives of three significant figures of the late nineteenth century--a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a prince who became king of the
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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Parallel als Buch-Ausg. erschienen
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Significant Persons and Parties; Author's Note; Preface; 1. Introduction: Into Forbidden Afghanistan; PART I. THE SAUR REVOLUTION; 2. Lives of the Party; 3. The Armature of Khalqi Power; Coda: The Death of a President; PART II. THE PECH UPRISING; 4. A Son of Safi; 5. Anatomy of a Tribal Uprising; Coda: The Death of a Safi Daughter; PART III. THE ISLAMIC JIHAD; 6. Muslim Youth; 7. Fault Lines in the Afghan Jihad; Coda: The Death of Majrooh; 8. Epilogue: Topakan and Taliban; Notes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z
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BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520228610
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Before Taliban Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
Language:
English
Keywords:
Afghanistan
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Politiker
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Geschichte 1945-1994
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Afghanistan
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Djihad
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Afghanistan-Konflikt
