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22900437 |
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20250521150925.0 |
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221213s2023 nyuab b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2022056937 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231210454 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231210447 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
TB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
AL |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
AL |
| Modifying agency |
AL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Source of code |
eng |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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n-us--- |
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a-af--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
E183.8.A3 |
| Item number |
R356 2023 |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
V491:1973.N R3 |
| Assigning agency |
AL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Rakove, Robert B., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1977- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753512 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Days of opportunity : |
| Remainder of title |
The United States and Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
United States and Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, USA : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Columbia University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2023. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2023] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 471p. |
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illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
2850.00 |
| Currency code |
INR |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: A day of opportunity -- A game of hide and seek : the Afghan pursuit of diplomatic relations, 1921-1938 -- We have a rare opportunity : U.S.-Afghan relations amid the world crisis, 1938-1945 -- Preeminence and peril : the American influx and the coming of the Afghan Cold War, 1945-1952 -- "We might be willing to take a chance" : the choice to contest Afghanistan, 1953-1956 -- Anxious coexistence : the aid contest, 1956-1959 -- The crisis era, 1959-1963 -- Reform and retrenchment, 1962-1968 -- The fall of the monarchy, 1968-1973 -- Return to engagement, 1973-1976 -- The end of diplomacy, 1977-1979 -- Conclusion: "Into the jaws of catastrophe". |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Long before the calamities of our own age, the United States involved itself deeply in Afghanistan. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and foreign archives, the historian Rob Rakove traces the remarkable, ultimately tragic story of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan up to the 1979 Soviet invasion. Committed to the preservation of Afghan independence, the United States played an unwitting, destabilizing role in the country, contributing to Afghanistan's emergence as a Cold War battlefield. Most histories of Afghanistan in the Cold War focus on the 1979 Soviet invasion and the country's emergence as a principal battleground in the 1980s. Even as post-Cold War scholarship has substantially corrected prior notions of what motivated Moscow and offered invaluable studies of U.S.-supported development programs in Afghanistan, an overarching treatment of Washington's efforts in Afghanistan remains to be published and the myth of inattention remains intact. The distinction is this: if the United States largely absented itself from pre-cataclysm Afghanistan, it committed at most a sin of omission. If it funded a few token, misconceived aid programs, while Moscow pursued a coherent, aggressive design, that verdict still holds. If, however, the U.S. role has been understated, and Soviet malevolence has been exaggerated, Washington bears considerable responsibility for the disasters that befell Afghanistan at the end of the 1970s. Days of Opportunity chronicles the vibrant years of peaceful Afghan-American relations, beginning in the wake of the Great War, and continuing until the Soviet invasion. It depicts the U.S. relationship with a different Afghanistan: a country largely at peace, which had evaded enlistment in the world wars, and which struck observers as a success story in Cold War nonalignment. It does not treat the collapse of Afghan nonalignment or the failure of the Afghan state as inevitable developments. It is an account of diplomacy and aid across six generally overlooked decades, described by historian Nile Green as the "missing middle" of Afghan history."-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Afghanistan Foreign Relation |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753513 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
United States Foreign Relation |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753514 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision |
Afghanistan. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753515 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Afghanistan |
| General subdivision |
Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753516 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Afghanistan |
| General subdivision |
Foreign relations |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753517 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Foreign relations |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753518 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Afghanistan |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
753519 |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Colon Classification (CC) |
| Koha item type |
Textbook |
| Classification part |
V491:1973.N R3 |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |
