Where the Wild Frontiers Are : Pakistan and the American Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781935982210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 281 str.

Manan Ahmed; Amitava Kumar

Opis

Since 2004 Manan Ahmed, a deeply informed Pakistani-American historian, has been casting his keen and always wry eye on the U.S.-Pakistani interaction on his blog, Chapati Mystery.Where the Wild Frontiers Areis a collection of his blogged essaysa work that will forever change the way its American readers think about Pakistan. The book captures the failure of most members of the U.S. elite to successfully "imagine" the reality of people's lives and society in Pakistan. In it, Ahmed unsparingly criticizes most of the so-called "experts" who prognosticate about Pakistan and its region in the U.S. mainstream media."