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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eppel, Michael, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
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.