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1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 40 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Tamim Ansary. |
| Summary |
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan-a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation undermined by its own demons while every forty to sixty years a great power disrupts whatever progress has been made. Related in storytelling style, Games without Rules provides revelatory insight into a country at the center of political debate. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Afghanistan -- History.
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Afghanistan -- History, Military.
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Military occupation -- History.
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British -- Afghanistan -- History.
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Russians -- Afghanistan -- History.
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Americans -- Afghanistan -- History.
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Afghanistan -- Strategic aspects.
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government.
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| Added Author |
Ansary, Mir Tamim.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982490133 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982490136 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10878791 |
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