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TITLE: |
Afghanistan / by Laurel Corona. |
AUTHOR: |
Corona, Laurel, 1949-. |
SERIES: |
Modern nations of the world |
PUBLISHED: |
San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, 2002. |
DESCRIPTION: |
112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-104) index. |
NOTES: |
Discusses the people, land, culture, history, and future of the nation of Afghanistan. |
NOTES: |
Introduction: Afghanistan at the crossroads -- The shape of a nation: land and people -- Cradle to colony: Afghanistan from prehistory to the nineteenth century -- In the crossfire of world history: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The rise and fall of the Taliban -- Life in today's Afghanistan -- The crossroads of art and culture -- Facing the future: contemporary challenges. |
SUBJECT: |
Afghanistan. |
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