books.google.com - With the exception of two short periods of direct British intervention during the Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80, the history of nineteenth-century Afghanistan has received little attention from western scholars. This study seeks to shift the focus of debate from the geostrategic concern with...http://books.google.com/books/about/State_and_Tribe_in_Nineteenth_Century_Af.html?id=ylTi-e2C_0IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareState and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
