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3rd ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-348) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Chronology -- Glossary -- List of abbreviations -- Map 1 Iraq : principal towns -- Map 2 Basra, Kuwait and the Shatt al-‘Arab -- Map 3 Iraq and the Middle East -- Map 4 Kurdish Iraq -- Introduction -- 1. The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul -- Power in the three provinces -- The Ottoman 'reconquest' of the three provinces -- Sultan Abdulhamid II and the young Turks -- The Committee of Union and Progress and its opponents -- 2. The British mandate -- British occupation and reactions -- The Iraqi revolt of 1920 -- The institutional definition of the state -- Mandate and treaty -- The Mosul question : territory and oil -- Different communities, different purposes, different histories -- Emerging trends in politics and the economy -- 3. The Hashemite monarchy 1932-41 -- Communal identities and tribal unrest -- Social criticism and political conspiracy -- The coup d'état of 1936 -- Military politics : pan-Arabism and army conspiracies -- Iraq in the Second World War -- The coup d'état of 1941 and the British military occupation -- 4. The Hashemite monarchy 1941-58 -- Re-establishing the regime -- Thwarted liberalisation -- Foreign policies : Arab issues, Palestine and the Portsmouth Treaty -- Economic development and party politics -- Nuri al-Sa‘id : the politics of reform and repression -- Nuri al-Sa‘id : foreign initiatives and domestic challenges -- The coup d'état of 1958. |
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5. The republic 1958-68 -- ‘Abd al-Karim Qasim : dictatorship and disillusion -- Iraqi foreign policy under Qasim -- The politics of conspiracy and the coup d'état of February 1963 -- Ba‘thist control and loss of control in 1963 -- ‘Abd al-Salam ‘Arif : Nasserist aspirations and Iraqi realities -- Patrimonialism and the rule of the clan -- ‘Abd al-Rahman ‘Arif : a weakening hold on power -- 6. The Ba‘th and the rule of Saddam Husain 1968-2003 -- Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and the consolidation of power -- Kurdish and Shi‘i challenges and relations with Iran -- Economic patronage, political control and foreign policy alignments -- War in Kurdistan -- Oil revenues, foreign policies and the rise of Saddam Husain -- Saddam Husain's presidency and the war with Iran in 1980 -- Defending the regime and Iraq after 1982 -- A war of attrition 1984-8 -- Resistance amongst the Kurds and the Shi‘a -- The aftermath of war and the invasion of Kuwait 1988-90 -- The war for Kuwait and the uprisings of 1991 -- Iraq under sanctions and the long aftermath of the Gulf war -- Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish politics -- The 'shadow state' in Iraq -- War and the fall of Saddam Husain -- 7. The American occupation and the parliamentary republic -- The rule of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) -- New institutions and old politics -- Insurgency, sectarianism and the spectre of civil war. |
| Summary |
This text traces Iraq's history from the Ottoman Empire, to the creation of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic, the rise of the Ba'th party and Saddam Hussein, and the American-led war of 2003. |
| Subject |
Iraq -- History -- 1921-
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Iraq. (OCoLC)fst01205757
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1921
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780521878234 |
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0521878233 |
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9780521702478 (pbk.) |
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052170247X (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
9780521702478 |
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