TY - BOOK AU - Caron, James M. TI - Afghanistan historiography and Pashtun Islam : modernization theory's afterimage / James M. Caron U1 - Pamphlet DS 355.2 .A34 2005 CY - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, [2005?]. KW - Afghanistan – Historiography KW - Department of South Asian Studies N1 - Caption title; In contrast to major developments in general South Asian historiography, the historiography of modern Afghanistan has largely persisted as something of a scholarly throwback to the modernization theory trend of the 1950s and 60s. the way Pashtun experiences of Islam have been treated in history writing draws heavily upon this larger modernization-oriented thematic, which in turn has existed in a dialectic with journalistic and policy-oriented writing…—(p. 1) ER -