The AfghansISBN: 978-0-631-19841-3
Hardcover
396 pages
November 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations.
Figures.
List of Maps.
Preface.
Up and Down the Hindu Kush.
The Peoples of Afghanistan.
The Early Years.
The Advent of the Indo-Iranian Speaking Peoples.
Archaeology and the Indo-Iranians.
Scythian Horsemen.
Opening up to the West.
The Greeks.
Northern Rulers.
The Reassertion of the Iranian West.
The Advent of Islam.
The Iranian Dynasties.
The Mongols.
Towards the Kingdom of Afghanistan.
The Sadozay Dynasty.
War with Britain.
The Dynasty of Amir 'Abd Al-Rahman Khan.
Changing Afghanistan.
The Years of Communism.
After the Soviets.
Epilogue.
Bibliography.
Index