The monuments of Afghanistan : history, archaeology and architecture /
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| Author / Creator: | Ball, Warwick. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. |
| Description: | xxiii, 298 p. : col. ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8372522 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Plates
- List of Drawings
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- General Background
- The Land
- The People
- The Historical Background
- Disruption: From Hunter-gatherer to Settler
- Consolidation: Towards Civilisation
- Transcendence: First Civilisations of the Bronze Age
- Disruption: The Arrival of the Indo-Iranians
- Consolidation: The Iron Age Kingdoms
- Transcendence: The Persian Empire
- Disruption: Alexander of Macedon
- Consolidation: Greeks and Indians
- Transcendence: The Greaco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Disruption: Nomadic Invaders
- Consolidation: The Early Kushans
- Transcendence: The Kushan Empire and Gandharan Art
- Disruption: Huns and Turks
- Consolidation: The Turk Kaganate
- Transcendence: Last Flowering of Gandharan Art
- Disruption: The Arrival of Islam
- Consolidation: The First Muslim Dynasties
- Transcendence: The Ghaznavid and Ghurid Empires
- Disruption: Mongol Invasions
- Consolidation: The 'Pax Mongolica'
- Transcendence: The Timurid Renaissance
- The Architectural Background
- Groundwork: Bronze Age Beginnings
- Culminating Traditions: Iron Age Development
- Convergent Traditions: Hellenism from the West, Buddhism from the East
- Greek, Roman, Buddhist: The Art of Gandhara
- Formation of the New and Transformation of the Old: The Architecture of Islam
- Late Islamic Architecture
- The Discovery of Afghanistan
- Greeks Bearing Gifts
- Pilgrims of the Middle Way
- Exotic Imagery and the First Muslims
- The European Re-awakening
- Arcadia Found: The First Mogul
- Soldiers, Charlatans and Scholars
- Players in the Great Game
- Advance of the Archaeologists
- Road to Katmandu and Road to Ruin
- Gazetteer of Main Sites and Monuments
- Atlas
- Glossary
- Bibliography
