History

24 May 2007

Online bibiographies

• History: Afghanistan, WWW Virtual Library
  
• Afghanistan Digital Library, New York University

Books

The best studies of the history of modern Afghanistan are books not available on the web. These include:

• Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
• Olivier Roy, Afghanistan: From Holy War to Civil War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
• Barnett R. Rubin, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System (Second edition - New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)
• William Maley, Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan And The Taliban (2004)
• Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden. (Free Press, 2001)

Web sources

The US Library of Congress study is a useful starting point, as is the major Wikipedia article. The Wikipedia articles on Afghanistan listed below are all at the time of writing useful and basically reliable, however care should always be taken to note occasions when Wikipedia editors indicate problematic articles.

• Afghanistan: A Country Study, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1997
• Afghanistan, GlobalSecurity.org
• History of Afghanistan, Wikipedia
• Afghanistan, Wikipedia
• History of Afghanistan since 1992, Wikipedia
• History of Afghanistan, Afghana.net
• Afghanistan History, Afghan.com