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A documentary history of modern iraq /

Previously published histories and primary source collections on the Iraqi experience tend to be topically focused or dedicated to presenting a top-down approach. By contrast, Stacy Holden's A Documentary History of Modern Iraq gives voice to ordinary Iraqis, clarifying the experience of the Sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Holden, Stacy E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ottoman Mesopotamia, 1903-1920
  • The wedding of Regina, 1903
  • Lt. Col. Sir Mark Sykes on Mosul, 1906
  • The young Turk proclamation of 1908
  • Jafar al-Askari on corrupt Ottoman administration in Iraq
  • Sultan Abdul Hamid deposed, 1909
  • Tribal rebellion near Mosul, 1909
  • Baghdad petition, 1910
  • British military rule in Basra
  • The horrors of World War I
  • The proclamation of Baghdad, 19 March 1917
  • The war viewed from Baghdad
  • The British mandate, 1920-1932
  • Iraqi nationalism
  • Nationalist poetry
  • The revolt of 1920
  • Lawrence of Arabia opposes Iraqi mandate
  • Winston Churchill outlines Middle East policy
  • The Kurdish "election" of King Faysal
  • King Faysal's coronation speech, 1921
  • Shi'is oppose (rigged) elections
  • The Hashemite Monarchy, 1932-1941
  • Faysal expresses intention to protect minorities, 1932
  • Pan-Arab nationalism
  • Faysal I promotes Pan-Arabism, 1932
  • The Assyrian affair, 1933
  • The Bakr Sidqi Coup of 1936
  • Rising anti-Semitism in Baghdad
  • The Shi'i celebration of Ashura
  • Elegy to the poor
  • Ending the old regime, 1941-1958
  • The Farhud
  • Rules for American soldiers in Iraq during World War II
  • The treaty of Portsmouth, 15 January 1948
  • Intellectual life in Baghdad
  • Poverty in Baghdad
  • The evolution of a communist
  • Law no. 1 of 1950
  • The exodus of Kurdish Jews
  • Life in a Shi'i village
  • The revolutionary era, 1958-1968
  • American response to Qasim's coup d? état
  • Corruption and inequality
  • An American view of revolutionary Iraq
  • Mutiny in Mosul, March 1959
  • The social lives of women in revolutionary Iraq
  • The Kurdish revolt, 1961-1963
  • Consolidating Ba'thist power, 1968-1979
  • U.S. response to the Ba'thist coup, July 1968
  • The Ba'thist constitution, 1970
  • The Jewish exodus under the Ba'th
  • Pan-Arab cultural production
  • Women in Ba'thist Iraq
  • History and Ba'thist totalitarianism
  • The United States considers assistance to Kurds, 1972
  • The 1974-1975 war in Kurdish Iraq
  • Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and the principle of social justice
  • Ba'thist response to Shi'i protests, 1979
  • The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1990
  • Saddam Hussein justifies the war
  • The Iran-Iraq War through a general's eyes
  • The United States supports Ba'thist Iraq
  • The Iran-Iraq War through a soldier's eyes
  • The front line
  • The home front
  • Al Anfal
  • The end of the war
  • The Persian Gulf War and sanctions, 1990-2002
  • Ambassador April Glaspie meets with Saddam Hussein
  • "Null and void": UN Sc Res 662, 9 August 1990
  • "All necessary means": UN Sc Res 678, 29 November 1990
  • The Persian Gulf War experienced in Baghdad
  • The Persian Gulf War wreaks regional havoc
  • "After the storm": winning the war, but losing the peace
  • Denis Halliday protests the sanctions regime
  • The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
  • The deleterious effects of sanctions on Iraqi women
  • The invasion of Iraq, 2001-2003
  • Saddam Hussein responds to 9/11
  • Brent Scowcroft opposes invasion of Iraq
  • President Bush argues for war
  • An Iraqi elegy to Baghdad
  • The Battle of Nasiriyah
  • The occupation of Baghdad
  • The pillaging of the national museum
  • Saddam Hussein responds to invasion
  • President Bush's "mission accomplished" speech
  • The occupation of Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority, 2003-2004
  • Civilians and the front line
  • Lt. Paul Bremer forms a governing council
  • Women during the Iraq War
  • A Sunni insurgent
  • Shi'i disillusionment
  • The rules of engagement
  • The coffins of Muqdadiyah
  • Operation Devil Siphon
  • The lot of children.