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 | : |
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 | : Henry A. Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Orit Bashkin |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2012-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804782016 |
Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s. As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of misguided state policies during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, from a dominant mood of coexistence, friendship, and partnership, the impossibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence became the prevailing narrative in the region—and the dominant narrative we have come to know today.
Author | : Stephen Hemsley Longrigg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Iraq |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : Charles Tripp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2002-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521529006 |
This updated edition of Charles Tripp's A History of Iraq covers events since 1998, and looks at present-day developments right up to mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive regimes, culminating in the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Tripp traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein.