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The history of Afghanistan / Meredith L. Runion.

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

9780313337987 (alk. paper)

0313337985 (alk. paper)

Greenwood histories of the modern nations ;

xviii, 155 p. : map ; 25 cm.

An introduction to Afghanistan : the land and people -- Prehistory : the emergence of civilization in ancient Afghanistan -- Early civilization and the Nomadic people of Afghanistan -- Afghanistan from the Greek Hellenistic culture to the introduction of Islam -- The Mongolian invasion through the Shah Dynasty -- The Durrani Empire through the Anglo-Afghan Wars, 1839-1919 -- From the age of reformation to the war with the Soviets, 1919-1979 -- The Soviet invasion and Afghan Civil War, 1979-1992 -- Fundamentalism and the Taliban regime, 1992-2001 -- Democracy and the future of Afghanistan.

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