Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know / (Record no. 48126)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780190496630
International Standard Book Number 9780190496647
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency ACKU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Geographic area code a-af---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number DS371.4
Item number R825
Class number 2020
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rubin, Barnett R.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know /
Statement of responsibility, etc Barnett R. Rubin.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York, NY:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc [2020].
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent Xviii, 332 pages:
Dimensions 22 cm.
Other physical details illustrations;
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
General note Online version: Rubin, Barnett R. Afghanistan New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2020] 9780190496654 (DLC) 2019037424.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Summary: "Through much of the twentieth century Afghanistan seemed to be a distant concern in the U.S. "Afghanistanism" used to be journalistic shorthand for stories about distant places that editors dismissed as irrelevant. Afghanistan's territory does include some remote, barely accessible regions, but it also includes ancient metropolises such as Balkh, Herat, Kabul, and Kandahar that through much of history were crossroads for commerce and the spread of ideas, including religions and artistic styles. Afghanistan's period of isolation was not an inevitable consequence of its location; it was the result of the policies of the British and Russian colonial empires. In the late 19th and 20th century, those empires agreed to make Afghanistan a buffer state separating their two empires. The only foreign representative would be a Muslim representative of British India, which controlled Afghanistan's foreign affairs. That arrangement has broken down so thoroughly, that Afghanistan is now the opposite of a buffer state. Instead of preventing conflict by separating empires or states, it has become an arena where others act out proxy conflicts. The Soviet invasion of December 1979 turned the country into the hottest conflict of a supposedly Cold War. The Afghan state collapsed in the 1990s as a result of that proxy war and the breakup of the USSR, which had been funding the state. The country then became the arena of conflict among regional powers - Pakistan versus Iran, Russia, and India - but also a zone of competition over pipeline routes among the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Iran."-- Provided by publisher.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note English
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghanistan
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghanistan
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 2001-
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghanistan
General subdivision Politics and government
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghanistan
General subdivision Politics and government
Chronological subdivision 21st century.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 28/07/2021   3ACKU000602135 28/07/2021 28/07/2021 Environment