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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780700624089 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780700624072 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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ACKU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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eng |
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a-af--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS356. |
| Item number |
J353 2017 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Jalali, Ali Ahmad. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A military history of Afghanistan : |
| Remainder of title |
from the great game to the global war on terror / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Ali Ahmad Jalali. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Lawrence, Kansas : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University Press of Kansas, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 617 pages : |
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illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
(Modern war studies ; Variation: Modern war studies) |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Abstract: 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. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-595) and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Contents: 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. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
History – Asia – Central Asia. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
History – Military – Wars & Conflicts. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Military history. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Afghanistan – History, Military. |
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| Geographic name |
Afghanistan – Strategic aspects. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Monograph |