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OSt |
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20181126150004.0 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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ACKU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS352. |
| Item number |
A336 1961 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Afghanistan : |
| Remainder of title |
ancient land with modern ways |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan. |
| 247 00 - FORMER TITLE |
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| Title |
= زور مدنیت او نوی ژوند / |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
[Kabul] : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
[1961]. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
199 pages : |
| Other physical details |
color illustrations, color maps ; |
| Dimensions |
28 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Cover title.<br/>Texts are both in English and Pashto.<br/> |
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| General note |
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
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| General note |
“Afghanistan: Ancient Land with Modern Ways was published by the Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan in 1961 to provide, as stated in the foreword, a “panorama of the ‘Afghan Scene’—past and present.” The book portrays a dynamic, modernizing Afghanistan whose people and government are “determined to make up for lost time” after a long period, said to have begun early in the 19th century, when the country’s “fortunes fell on bad days” and in which “the hopes and aspirations of its people repeatedly found expression only in successive, costly and bloody wars for Independence.” The book is in both English and Pushto, and includes short, richly illustrated chapters on the geography, culture, history, people, social development, economy, government, and international affairs of the country. The emphasis is on development, including the construction of roads, airports, universities, bridges, and other forms of infrastructure, as well as education and the training of the workforce. Women are portrayed as active in society and in the economy, both as workers and consumers. The section on international affairs underlines Afghanistan’s status as a member of non-aligned group of nations, with photographs showing King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, and Minister of External Affairs Sardar Mohammed Naim meeting with the leaders of China, Egypt, Turkey, the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries. The book concludes: “The stress and strain of historical events have forged the people of Afghanistan into a united mass with a single purpose to eliminate the deficiencies of the present which we have inherited from the past. With cautious optimism Afghanistan looks forward toward its future with confidence”—copied from website. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Linkage |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Afghanistan |
| General subdivision |
Pictorial works. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Afghanistan, zoṛ Madaniyat. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Electronic format type |
PDF |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_a336_1961">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_a336_1961</a> |
| Public note |
Scanned for ACKU. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Monograph |
| Call number prefix |
azu_acku_ds352_a336_1961 |