A Short History of Iraq

ISBN-13: 9781405859370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 191 str.

Thabit Abdullah

Opis

This history of Iraq focuses on the interaction between the old and the new, or between continuity and change, as it is manifested in the nature of social development, nation-building, the state and the political opposition.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Chronology of main events.  Maps.  Introduction.  1. From the Arab conquest to the fall of Baghdad, 636–1258.  2. Iraq under Mongol and Turkoman rule, 1258–1534.  3. The first three centuries of Ottoman rule, 1534–1831.  4. The Tanzimat and Young Turk period, 1831–1918.  5. Mandate and Monarchy, 1918–1958.  6. The struggle for the Republic, 1958–1979.  7. The dictatorship of Saddam Husayn, 1979–2003.  8. Iraq Under American Hegemony, 2003-2009.  Conclusion.  Select bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

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).