Discusses the people, land, culture, history, and future of the nation of Afghanistan.
Content Note
Introduction: Afghanistan at the crossroads -- The shape of a nation: land and people -- Cradle to colony: Afghanistan from prehistory to the nineteenth century -- In the crossfire of world history: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The rise and fall of the Taliban -- Life in today's Afghanistan -- The crossroads of art and culture -- Facing the future: contemporary challenges.