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The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan

Rule and Resistance in the Hindu Kush, circa 600 BCE-600 CE

Herausgegeben: Payne, Richard E.; King, Rhyne
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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 i...