The Making of Modern Iraq
Author | : Henry Albert Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Albert Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stacy E. Holden |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2012-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813043603 |
Previously published histories and primary source collections on the Iraqi experience tend to be topically focused or dedicated to presenting a top-down approach. By contrast, Stacy Holden's A Documentary History of Modern Iraq gives voice to ordinary Iraqis, clarifying the experience of the Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Jews, and women over the past century. Through varied documents ranging from short stories to treaties, political speeches to memoirs, and newspaper articles to book excerpts, the work synthesizes previously marginalized perspectives of minorities and women with the voices of the political elite to provide an integrated picture of political change from the Ottoman Empire in 1903 to the end of the second Bush administration in 2008. Covering a broad range of topics, this bottom-up approach allows readers to fully immerse themselves in the lives of everyday Iraqis as they navigate regime shifts from the British to the Hashemite monarchy, the political upheaval of the Persian Gulf wars, and beyond. Brief introductions to each excerpt provide context and suggest questions for classroom discussion. This collection offers raw history, untainted and unfiltered by modern political framework and thought, representing a refreshing new approach to the study of Iraq.
Author | : Phebe Marr |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813344433 |
Phebe Marr's best-selling history of modern Iraq, updated with incisive analysis of events since 2003
Author | : Henry A. Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Phebe Marr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813382142 |
Uses United Nations reports, Iraqi government records, and interviews with Iraqi educators, writers, and ordinary citizens to present a history of modern Iraq, from the construction of the modern state in 1920 through today.
Author | : Eliezer Tauber |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135201188 |
This volume examines the impact of clandestine and overt political organizations in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq after World War I. It analyzes Amir Faysal's short-lived state in post-war Syria, relations between Syrians, Iraqis and Palestinians, and nationalist activity within Iraq.
Author | : Liora Lukitz |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2005-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857716042 |
Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archaeologist, traveller and 'orientalist'. A remarkable woman in male-dominated Edwardian society, she shunned convention by eschewing marriage and family for an academic career and the extensive travelling that would lead to her major role in Middle Eastern diplomacy. But her private life war marred by the tragedy, vulnerability and frustration that were key to her quest both for a British dominated Middle East and relief from the torture of her romantic failures. Through her vivid writings, she brought the Arab world alive for countless Britons as she travelled to some of the region's most inhospitable places. She explored the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I when her travels throughout the region and her knowledge of Arabic made her indispensable to British Intelligence. Alongside T.E. Lawrence, she was hugely instrumental in the post-war reconfiguration of the Arab states in the Middle East. In Iraq, in particular, she became a friend and confidant of the new King Faisal, and a prime mover in drawing up the country's boundaries and establishing a constitutional monarchy there, with its parliament, civil service and legal system. She was influential in creating the state which had all the trappings of independence while remaining a virtual British colony. The legacy of her work is still being played out in the conflicts of today. Yet behind Gertrude Bell's public success was a backdrop of personal passions, desires and the relationships that drove this extraordinary woman. Embroiled in an unsuccessful love affair with Charles Doughty-Wylie, a married man, she found peace in the solitude of the desert. But the seemingly intractable problems of the newly independent Iraq led her to write of the 'weariness of it all'. Shortly afterwards she took her own life with a lethal dose of sleeping pills. Using previously unseen sources, including Gertude Bell's own diaries and letters, Liora Lukitz provides a deeper political and personal biography of this influential character. A Quest in the Middle East is a lyrical and illuminating portrait of a woman born ahead of her time, grappling with issues that would shape the future of the Middle East.
Author | : Kanan Makiya |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1998-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520214390 |
First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke out, REPUBLIC OF FEAR was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This updated edition relates how the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party has transformed and controlled Iraq with fear since 1968. An important and timely book.
Author | : Fernando Báez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Author | : Phebe Marr |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813350066 |
The Modern History of Iraq is a remarkably readable account of contemporary Iraq, placing in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to afflict the country. This text weaves together several important themes, including the search for a national identity, the struggle to achieve social and economic development, the changes in political dynamics, and the impact of foreign interventions, to provide readers with a holistic understanding of modern Iraq. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition features more discussion of cultural identity and media and society. In addition, this edition includes two new chapters on the events and shifts in the country of the early twenty-first century-the US intervention and withdrawal, the stabilization and subsequent unraveling of the Maliki government, the effects of the Arab uprisings, and the rise of ISIS-and their political, economic, and social consequences. Written by noted Iraq scholar Phebe Marr with new co-author Ibrahim al-Marashi, this text is essential reading for readers who seek to understand modern Iraq in the context of historical perspective.