Coburn, Noah2016-10-212016-10-212011-09Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity Vol. 39, No. 5, September 2011, 845–8460090-5992http://hdl.handle.net/11209/10488A review of the book Afghanistan: a cultural and political history, by Thomas Barfield, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2010, 400 pp, US$29.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9780691145686enArticle