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AFGHAN MODERN A F G H A N M O D E R N T H E H I S T O R Y O F A G L O B A L N A T I O N Robert D. Crews The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mas sac hu setts London, England 2015 Copyright © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College all rights reserved Printed in the United States of Ame rica First printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-674-28609-2 For Christopher and Reina CONTENTS Introduction 1 1 Imperial Cosmopolitans 11 2 Forging an Afghan Empire 42 3 Bodies in Motion 69 4 The Star of Asia 114 5 Seduced by Capital 140 6 The Atomic Age 173 7 Revolutionary Dreams 229 8 At the Center of Humanity 268 Epilogue 302 Notes 313 Ac know ledgm ents 365 Index 369 AFGHAN MODERN

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