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Fragments of the Afghan Frontier

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The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's northwest territories has a long and violent past. Through a collage of historical narrative and ethnographic research, Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden counter the stereotypes and simplistic assessments that obscure a more accurate picture of this frontier, at the same time exposing the web of difficulties now facing loc...more

Hardcover, 301 pages

Published March 20th 2012 by Columbia University Press (first published May 31st 2011)

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