Afghanistan
By: by Laurel Corona.
Series: Modern nations of the world
Publisher: Lucent Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature; Afghanistan
Description: Discusses the people, land, culture, history, and future of the nation of Afghanistan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-104) index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Afghanistan at the crossroads; title: The shape of a nation: land and people; title: Cradle to colony: Afghanistan from prehistory to the nineteenth century; title: In the crossfire of world history: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; title: The rise and fall of the Taliban; title: Life in today's Afghanistan; title: The crossroads of art and culture; title: Facing the future: contemporary challenges.