EAN: 9783447114530

THE LIMITS OF EMPIRE IN ANCIENT AFGHANISTAN GEB...

The territory of modern Afghanistan provided a center - and sometimes the center - for a
succession of empires  from the Achaemenid Persians in the 6th century BCE until the Sasanian
Iranians in the 7th century CE. And yet these regions most frequently appear as comprising a
crossroads in accounts of their premodern history. This volume explores how successive imperial
regimes established enduring forms of domination spanning the highlands of the Hindu Kush 
essentially ungovernable territories in the absence of the technologies of the modern state.
The modern term Afghanistan likely has its origins in an ancient word for highland regions and
peoples resistant to outside rule. The volume's contributors approach the challenge of
explaining the success of imperial projects within a highland political ecology from a variety
of disciplinary perspectives with their respective evidentiary corpora  notably history 
anthropology  archaeology  numismatics  and philology.

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