Records of Iraq, 1914-1966: 1958-1960
Author : Alan de Lacy Rush
Publisher :
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Alan de Lacy Rush
Publisher :
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Alan de Lacy Rush
Publisher :
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Samira Haj
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791432419
Haj explains the pervasive violence of Iraq's political scene not by invoking ageless images of sectarian strife and irrational bloodlust but by showing that the violent political battles of the 1950s and 1960s were the result of fundamental changes in the system of ownership and agricultural production during the nineteenth century.
Author : Farzad Sharifi-Yazdi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0857726366
Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense - and heated - speculation, controversy and debate. Here, Farzad Cyrus Sharifi scrutinises the rival Arab-Iranian claims to Bahrain, the Shatt al-Arab waterway, and the Abu Musa and Tunbs islands in the years after World War II and before the Iranian revolution. Through investigation of previously unexamined primary materials and interviews with leading players, this book sheds new light on the evolution and dynamics of hegemonic and nationalistic Arab-Iranian rivalries and how these rivalries began to find symbolic expression through territorial disputes. Sharifi illustrates that these ongoing disputes - and the deep-seated tensions still prevalent in Arab-Iranian relations - are largely rooted in how they were constructed in the post-World War II period, making this book vital reading for researchers of the politics, history, international relations and diplomacy of the Middle East.
Author : Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442236930
From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: the idea of a single Arab nation, the reality of multiple Arab states, and the competition between them over both concrete and symbolic interests. These concepts are presented against the background of Great Power involvement in the region, regional issues such as the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Iran-Iraq war, and the rise of political Islam. The evolution of regional Arab politics is examined from its infancy at the beginning of the 20th century to the profound challenges posed by the upheavals of the Arab Spring, and through the emergence of multiple Arab states organized under the League of Arab States, the pan-Arab heyday of Gamal Abdel Nasser between 1955 and 1967, and the subsequent consolidation of a multi-polar Arab state system. This history highlights the changing nature of modern Arab identity, the achievements and shortcomings of Arab state formation processes, and the influence of enduring communal, tribal, religious and ethnic identities on the modern Arab order. Altogether, these factors help explain contemporary Arab realities and why the Arab nationalist dream of achieving power and prosperity in line with an idealized image of the past, has proven elusive. This failure, in turn, has fueled both the recent upheavals and limited the prospects for successful outcomes. This broad and readable synthesis covers the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the Arab region. By reexamining what “being Arab” means today, politically and culturally, it will be a valuable text to students seeking to understand the modern Middle East.
Author : Sara Pursley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1503607496
Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernization theorists, and postwar international agencies. Familiar Futures considers how such projects—from the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba'th coup in 1963—reshaped Iraqi everyday habits, desires, and familial relations in the name of a developed future. Sara Pursley investigates how Western and Iraqi policymakers promoted changes in schooling, land ownership, and family law to better differentiate Iraq's citizens by class, sex, and age. Peasants were resettled on isolated family farms; rural boys received education limited to training in agricultural skills; girls were required to take home economics courses; and adolescents were educated on the formation of proper families. Future-oriented discourses about the importance of sexual difference to Iraq's modernization worked paradoxically, deferring demands for political change in the present and reproducing existing capitalist relations. Ultimately, the book shows how certain goods—most obviously, democratic ideals—were repeatedly sacrificed in the name of the nation's economic development in an ever-receding future.
Author : Hala Mundhir Fattah
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Iraq
ISBN : 0816057672
Describes the history of Iraq, from its beginnings as the Sumarian civilization in Mesopotamia through the present day.
Author : Elie Podeh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107001080
The first systematic study of the role of celebrations and public holidays in the Arab Middle East.
Author : Gökhan Çetinsaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1134294956
This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature of its interaction with provincial society. In drawing on sources of the Ottoman archives, bringing together and analyzing an abundance of complex documents, this book is a fascinating contribution to the field of Middle Eastern studies.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Human rights
ISBN :
This reference resource presents "entirely original articles, treating twentieth century events never before covered. The current five volumes of Human Rights address 462 topics in the history of human rights, both instances of human rights denial and human rights advances."--From page v of Publisher's note.