Cargando…

A Military History of Afghanistan : From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror /

The first comprehensive history of the last two-plus centuries of warfare and international conflict in land-locked Afghanistan, from the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 1800s through the region's early 20th-century struggles to modernize, its last monarchy (1933-1973), the Soviet Union's so-call...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jalali, Ali Ahmad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_51632
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905045500.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 161209s2017 ksu o 00 0 eng d
010 |z  2016055770 
020 |a 9780700624089 
020 |z 9780700624072 
035 |a (OCoLC)980805552 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Jalali, Ali Ahmad,  |e author. 
245 1 2 |a A Military History of Afghanistan :   |b From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror /   |c Ali Ahmad Jalali. 
264 1 |a Lawrence, Kansas :  |b University Press of Kansas,  |c [2017] 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2017 
264 4 |c ©[2017] 
300 |a 1 online resource (656 pages):   |b illustrations, maps ; 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a Modern war studies 
505 0 |a A distinct geography and a turbulent history -- Highlights of the past, ancient era to 1800 -- The great game and the British invasion of Afghanistan, 1809-1839 -- The first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842 -- Geopolitical changes in Central Asia leading to the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1878 -- The second phase of the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1879-1881 -- A period of uneasy peace and the third Anglo-Afghan war, 1880-1919 -- Afghanistan under King Amanullah and the civil war, 1919-1929 -- The Cold War and the Soviet invasion, 1929-1979 -- Soviet occupation and the war of resistance, 1979-1989 -- The civil war and the rise of the Taliban, 1989-2001 -- U.S. invasion, the fall of the Taliban and the Bonn process, 2001-2005. 
520 |a The first comprehensive history of the last two-plus centuries of warfare and international conflict in land-locked Afghanistan, from the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 1800s through the region's early 20th-century struggles to modernize, its last monarchy (1933-1973), the Soviet Union's so-called "Vietnam War" in the 1980s, and America's "War on Terror," which began in 2001 and continues into the present. By an insider native Afghan author whose careers have encompassed military, government, and academic service. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
651 7 |a Afghanistan  |x Strategic aspects.  |2 nli 
651 7 |a Afghanistan  |x History, Military.  |2 nli 
651 7 |a Afghanistan  |2 gnd 
651 7 |a Afghanistan.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01205406 
651 0 |a Afghanistan  |x Strategic aspects. 
651 0 |a Afghanistan  |x History, Military. 
650 7 |a Militär  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Strategic aspects of individual places.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01355062 
650 7 |a HISTORY  |x Military  |x Wars & Conflicts (Other)  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a HISTORY  |z Asia  |x Central Asia.  |2 bisacsh 
600 1 7 |a Krieg  |2 gnd 
655 7 |a Military history.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411630 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/51632/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2017 Complete 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2017 History 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2017 Middle Eastern Studies