{"product_id":"fragments-of-the-afghan-frontier-magnus-marsden-9780199327447","title":"Fragments of the Afghan Frontier","description":"Despite the long and intimate history of engagement along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's North-West, this area and its relationship to the world remains poorly understood in the West's popular imagination. Through the construction of a collage of historical narratives and intense ethnographic encounters, Marsden and Hopkins argue that the simplistic stereotypes and tropes that all too often masquerade as knowledge about the Frontier not only conceal a more complex reality, but are also a source of the problems that local and international actors alike face there. Not some simple isolated depot of radical terrorists or instrumental tribesmen, the Frontier is a space of richly textured meaning, constructed through a history of movement of its inhabitants and their understanding of the world beyond. \u003cem\u003eFragments of the Afghan Frontier\u003c\/em\u003e offers a corrective to simplistic understanding both of the region's history and its current realities, leaving the reader with a deeper understanding of the ever-evolving complexity of this globally significant region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Magnus Marsden, Benjamin Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199327440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199327447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.81w x 0.94d","brand":"Magnus Marsden","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43914263298303,"sku":"9780199327447","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f867a980-a42e-4ad6-b401-c48d4f901043.jpg?v=1680641288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fragments-of-the-afghan-frontier-magnus-marsden-9780199327447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}