Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium
A History of Afghanistan Through Clothes, Carpets and the Camera
$29.74
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
From the complete coverage of chadaris to mini-skirts, and back again. From ancient carpet designs to woven depictions of tanks and Kalashnikovs. From photographs of unveiled women to an image of horror—the execution of a kneeling woman known as Zarmeena, videoed covertly by one of the few watching women. This remarkable book provides a history of Afghanistan through the visual.
The Kabul Stadium looms large because it was there, one afternoon in Augu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922330758 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922330752 |
| Author: | Tim Bonyhady |
| Publisher: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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Critics Review
‘Bonyhady crafts his history through a forensic analysis of detailed sources’
PRAISE FOR TIM BONYHADY ANDTWO AFTERNOONS IN THE KABUL STADIUM
‘Bonyhady crafts his history through a forensic analysis of detailed sources’ - ABR on The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat
‘[A]s Bonyhady’s highly engaging new book eloquently demonstrates, the rat and its history offer a fascinating lens through which to examine the history of the Australian environment and the catastrophic human and environmental impact of European invasion…[a] fascinating and often profound book’ - Sydney Morning Herald on The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat
‘This book is environmental history writing at its best’
Historical Records of Australian Science on The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat ‘Barbarism and textiles, miniskirts and chadaris. Historian Tim Bonyhady has fashioned these and countless other ingredients into an intriguing account of Afghanistan’s fiendishly complex cultural and political wars in which a leader’s choice of hat relays coded messages, and a photograph can be every bit as dangerous as a landmine.’ - Christopher Kremmer
About The Author
Tim Bonyhady
Tim Bonyhady is one of Australia’s foremost environmental and cultural historians. His many books include Images in Opposition: Australian Landscape Painting 1801–1890, Burke and Wills: From Melbourne to Myth, Places Worth Keeping: Conservationists, Politics and Law, the award winning The Colonial Earth and The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat.
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