Games without Rules

Traces the history of Afghanistan and the power conflicts that have interrupted its ongoing struggle to combine a democracy with Islamist fanaticism and meld the modern world with the tribal village republics that populate the countryside.

Info autore

Tamim Ansary is the author of Destiny Disrupted and Games without Rules, among other books. For ten years he wrote a monthly column for Encarta.com, and has published essays and commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Alternet, TomPaine.com, Edutopia, Parade, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Bill Moyers, PBS The News Hour, Al Jazeera, and NPR. Born in Afghanistan in 1948, he moved to the U.S. in 1964. He lives in San Francisco.

Riassunto

By the author of West of Kabul, East of New York and Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have interrupted an ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mir Tamim Ansary, Tamim Ansary
• Editore: PublicAffairs
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9781610393195
• ISBN: 978-1-61039-319-5
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 233 mm x 29 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire