Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781474412124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str.

Roger Williams University) Dona Sargon (Associate Professor

Opis

Were they simply bystanders, victims of collateral damage who played a passive role in its history? Furthermore, how have they negotiated their position throughout various periods of Iraq's state-building processes? This book details a narrative of Iraq in the twentieth century and refashions the Assyrian experience as an integral part of Iraq's broader contemporary historiography. It is the first comprehensive account to contextualize a native experience alongside the emerging state. Using primary and secondary data, this book offers a nuanced exploration of the dynamics that have affected and determined the trajectory of the Assyrians' experience in twentieth-century Iraq.

Spis treści

Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Assyrians; A New Approach to Meaning; Moving Forward with Purpose; Chapter Analysis; 1. Integrating the Assyrian Question; A Historiography of Historiography and a Theoretical Framework; Key Sources: Mapping Iraqi Assyrians and Sectarianisation; 2. Framing the Assyrian Narrative: Late 19th and Early 20th Century; Assyrian Demography: Between Deteriorating Empires and Colonial Expansion; Modern Roots of Inter-Religious Animosity; World War 1; From Versailles 1919 to Lausanne 1923; The Period of the Iraq Levies and the Assyrian Settlement; 3. Iraq: Buildin a 'Nation'-State; The Patriarch and Temporal Authority; The Massacre at Simele; International Recognition; Road to the Republic; 4. The Birth of the Republic and an Autonomist Struggle; The 1958 Coup and Renewed Internal Strife; ?oriya Massacre of 1969; Demographic Situation; 5. Enduring Discord: Political Machinations and Border Clearings; A Resumption of Violence; The Border Clearings of 1977 -- 1978; 6. New Movements and War on the Horizon; Iraq-Iran War; The Calm Before the Storm; Renewed International Interest in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign; 7. Nation-State Formation, Nation-State Building and Contentious Pluralism; Situating the Assyrian Experience; Agency, Failed Strategies and Transdenominationalism; Simele Revisited; Development and Further Consequences of Urbanisation and Arabisation; State-Sponsored Acculturation; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendix A: Village Data; Appendix B: Bibliography; Appendix C: Documents Concerning Cultural and Political Organisations.