A Brief History of Iraq

ISBN-13: 9780816057672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 336 str.

Hala Mundhir Fattah

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Basic facts, a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of suggested reading make up the appendixes in this invaluable book.

Coverage includes:

Iraq, the first society

The Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and the Sassanians

Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty

Iraq under the Abbasid dynasty

The Mongol invasion and early Ottoman rule

Iraq under the Ottomans

British occupation and the Iraqi monarchy

The growth of the republican regimes and the emergence of Baathist Iraq

The rule of Saddam Hussein and the difficult legacy of the mukhabarat state

The 2003 Iraq War.