Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim ...(展开全部)

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim ...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

乔纳森·L. 李（Jonathan L. Lee），英国皇家亚洲学会和英国波斯研究所研究员、英国阿富汗研究所研究员。他曾在阿富汗生活多年，是一名社会和文化历史学家，也是研究阿富汗历史的首席权威专家。 钱镇，中央党校国际战略研究院副研究员，曾在南京大学-霍普金斯大学中美文化中心、英国利兹大学民主化研究中心进修，在美国斯坦福大学、路易威尔大学和雪城大学做访问学者。主持翻译乔姆斯基《谁统治世界》。 李勤，中国人民大学外国语学院英语翻译专业硕士毕业。专注中英文翻译实践，有大量书籍、商务翻译、涉外陪同接待经验，译文主攻人文社科方向，风格忠实流畅。 陶续，大连外国语大学英语学院副教授，研究方向：美国文学、区域国别研究。 朱永彪，兰州大学阿富汗研究中心主任。

乔纳森·L. 李（Jonathan L. Lee），英国皇家亚洲学会和英国波斯研究所研究员、英国阿富汗研究所研究员。他曾在阿富汗生活多年，是一名社会和文化历史学家，也是研究阿富汗历史的首席权威专家。 钱镇，中央党校国际战略研究院副研究员，曾在南京大学-霍普金斯大学中美文化中心、英国利兹大学民主化研究中心进修，在美国斯坦福大学、路易威尔大学和雪城大学做访问学者。主持翻译乔姆斯基《谁统治世界》。 李勤，中国人民大学外国语学院英语翻译专业硕士毕业。专注中英文翻译实践，有大量书籍、商务翻译、涉外陪同接待经验，译文主攻人文社科方向，风格忠实流畅。 陶续，大连外国语大学英语学院副教授，研究方向：美国文学、区域国别研究。 朱永彪，兰州大学阿富汗研究中心主任。

In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people ros...(展开全部)

William Dalrymple FRSL, FRGS, FRAS (born William Hamilton-Dalrymple on 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a prominent broadcaster and critic. His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the...(展开全部)