A people without a state : the Kurds from the rise of Islam to the dawn of nationalism /
Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an identity that has often been ignored in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East and brings to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2016.
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Edición: | First edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the origins of the Kurds
- myths, history, and modern politics
- Kurdish distinctiveness under Arab, Persian, and Turkish dominance
- The era of Ottoman and Iranian rule
- The demise of Kurdish emirates in the nineteenth century
- Seeds of Kurdish nationalism in the declining Ottoman empire
- The beginnings of modern Kurdish politics
- The Kurds and Kurdistan during World War I
- The Kurds and the new Middle East after the Ottomans
- Conclusion : from distinctiveness to nationalism
- continuing issues of Kurdish collective identity.