...Ghulam J. Arez Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919–1929 . By Leon B. Poullada . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1973 . xvii, 318 pp. Maps, Tables, Index. $14.50. Afghanistan: Political Modernization of a Mountain-Kingdom . By Balwant Bhaneja . New Delhi : Spectra...

...Louis Dupree Badakhshan, Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan, Volume I: Badakhshan rovince and Northeastern Afghanistan . Edited by Ludwig W. Adamec . Graz, Austria : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt , 1972 . xiii, 255 pp. Glossary, Index, Map Section. $15.50...

...Thomas Barfield The Afghanistan Wars . By William Maley . Basingstoke, Hants and New York : Palgrave , 2002 . ix , 340 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). The March of Folly in Afghanistan, 1978–2001 . By Jagat S. Mehta . New Delhi : Manohar , 2002 . 224 pp. $29.50 (cloth...

...Freeland K. Abbott Horned Moon: An Account of a Journey through Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan . By Ian Stephens . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1955 . ix, 288 . Plates, Appendices, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 638 FAR...

...Vartan Gregorian Afghanistan: Highway of Conquest . By Arnold Fletcher . Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press , 1965 . 325 pp. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 541 able balance which Russia attained in her Persian trade...

...Senzil Nawid Afghanistan . By Louis Dupree . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1973 . xxiv, 760 pp. Maps, Charts, Bibliography. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 562 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES gives enormous power to any one in Kafiristan...

...Richard S. Newell Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan . By Olivier Roy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . vi, 253 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 406 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES philosophy and science proper (e.g...

...Robert L. Canfield Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan . By G. Whitney Azoy . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania , 1982 . xi, 143 pp. Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 174 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES voice explaining some cultural item...

...Thomas Perry Thornton Roots of Confrontation in South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and the Superpowers . By Stanley Wolpert . New York : Oxford University Press , 1982 . viii, 200 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $14.95. Der Indische Ozean: Konfliktregion oder “zone des...

... Respublika Afganistan-Spravochnik [The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan-A Handbook]. Edited by M. R. ARUNOVA et al. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 175 pp. Maps, Tables. 0.40 ruble. Afghanistan: Past and Present. Edited by E. SHCHEPILOVA et al. Moscow: U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences (Oriental Studies in the U.S.S.R...

...Richard N. Frye The Archaeology of Afghanistan: From Earliest Times to the Timurid Period . Edited by F. R. Allchin and Norman Hammond . London : Academic Press , 1978 . xxiii, 451 pp. Bibliography, Subject Index. £30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981...

...Akbar S. Ahmed Abstract The four books reviewed are different in discipline and approach and written for widely different audiences. They are, however, linked in their articulation as a contemporary response to the larger political situation in and around Afghanistan. Certain fundamental issues...

...Louis Dupree The Politics of Afghanistan . By Richard S. Newell . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1972 . xvii , 237 pp. Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS their compatriots' laws...

...Robert L. Canfield Afghanistan—Some New Approaches . Edited by George Grassmuck , Ludwig W. Adamec and Frances H. Irwin . Ann Arbor : Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, The University of Michigan , 1969 . vii, 405 pp. Chronology, Bibliography. Copyright ©...

... to bridge the gulf between drill sentences and literature. ROBERT O. SWAN Du\e University Ancient Art from Afghanistan: Treasures of the Kabul Museum. BY BENJAMIN ROWLAND, JR. New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1966. 144 pp. Plates, Bibliography, n.p. An exhibit of the ancient arts of Afghanistan organized...

...Ainslie T. Embree India and Afghanistan, 1876–1907. A Study in Diplomatic Relations . By D. P. Singhal . St. Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press , 1963 . xii , 216 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968...

...Donald N. Wilber Afghanistan . By John C. Griffiths , with a historical note by Sir Olaf Caroe. New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1967 . xi , 179 pp. Maps, Appendices, References, Short Reading List, Index. $5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK...

...Richard S. Newell The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880–1946 . By Vartan Gregorian . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1969 . viii, 586 pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Plates, Index. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Richard F. Strand Men of Influence in Nuristan: A Study of Social Control and Dispute Settlement in Waigal Valley, Afghanistan . By Schuyler Jones . London and New York : Seminar Press , 1974 . Seminar Studies in Anthropology, 3. xiv, 299 pp. Illustrations, Photographs, Maps, Tables...

...David B. Edwards Abstract G ulbuddin hekmatyar made the above statement in a speech to Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, in the early 1980s. As the leader ( amīr ) of Hizb-i Islami Afghanistan (the Islamic Party of Afghanistan), one of the principal Islamic parties then fighting to overthrow...