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Recent International Intervention In Afghanistan Has Reproduced Familiar Versions Of The Afghan National Story, From Repeatedly Doomed Invasions To Perpetual Fault Lines Of Ethnic Division. Yet Almost No Attention Has Been Paid To The Ways In Which Afghans Have Made Sense Of Their History Themselves. Radically Questioning Received Ideas About How To Understand Afghanistan, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes Asks How Afghan Intellectuals, Ideologues And Ordinary People Have Understood Their Collective Past. The Book Brings Together The Leading International Specialists To Focus On Case Studies Of The Dari, Pashto And Uzbek Histories Which Afghans Have Produced In Abundance Since The Formation Of The Afghan State In The Mid-eighteenth Century. Nile Green. Previously Issued In Print: 2016. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.