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Afghanistan : a military history from the ancient empires to the Great Game /
"This new book guides the reader through over 2000 years of military history in the region that we now know as Afghanistan, from ancient times up to the European colonialism epitomized by the romanticism of the Great Game. Jalali traces the way in which armies commanded by Cyrus the Great, Alex...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Geographic Overview
- Early History of Afghanistan: Migrations, Displacements, and the struggle for Domination
- The Passage of Alexander the Great, 330-323 BC
- Disintegration of the Greek Power in the East and the Rise of New Empires: Greco-Bactrians, Sakas, Kushans and Ephthalites, 323 BC-642 AD
- The Arab Conquest and Islamization of Afghanistan, 642-921 AD
- Decline of the Abbassid Caliphate and the Rise of Local Dynasties, 921-1215 AD
- The Mongol Cataclysm, 1220-1370
- Timur and the Timurids, 1335-1526
- Afghan Tribes and the Gunpowder Empires, 1500-1709
- The Rise of Local Afghan States and their Invasion of Persia, 1709-1747
- The Durrani Empire and the Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1747-1834.