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Product Description First the British Indian Empire, and then the State of Pakistan, have worked to fully integrate the Frontier Tribal Areas along the Afghan border into wider political, economic, and administrative systems. Those hoping to fully understand the fighting of 2004 around Wana in South Waziristanwill gain insight from the pair of century-old tribal area reports presented here. About the Author Robert Nichols is Associate Professor of History at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He teaches South Asian and Indian Ocean history and has worked on the regional histories of the Pashtun communities of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also has taught history courses as a lecturer at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and Yale University.