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A Short History of Iraq 2nd edition

ISBN: 9781405859370 | 1405859377
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 9/27/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This accessible guide has been fully updated to take into account the Iraq War and subsequent developments, whilst retaining its character as a non-partisan and approachable text for students and interested readers alike.The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the area known currently as Iraq from a backward region of the Ottoman Empire, to one of the most important and dynamic states in the Middle East. The rise of modern Iraq has its roots in the second half of the nineteenth century when Ottoman reforms led to gradual state mod... MORE
Acknowledgementsp. viii
Publisher's acknowledgementsp. ix
Chronology of main eventsp. x
Introductionp. xvi
Mapsp. xviii
From the Arab conquest to the fall of Baghdad, 636-1258p. 1
Iraq under Mongol and Turkoman rule, 1258-1534p. 30
The first three centuries of Ottoman rule, 1534-1831p. 50
The Tanzimat and Young Turk period, 1... MOREp. 74
Mandate and monarchy, 1918-1958p. 93
The struggle for the republic, 1958-1979p. 118
The dictatorship of Saddam Husayn, 1979-2003p. 136
Iraq under American hegemony, 2003-2009p. 159
Conclusionp. 177
Select bibliographyp. 180
Indexp. 185
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Thabit A. J. Abdullah is Professor of History at York University, Canada. He is the author of Merchants, Mamluks and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth Century Basra (2001), and Dictatorship, Imperialism and Chaos: Iraq Since 1989 (2006).


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