A people without a state : the Kurds from the rise of Islam to the dawn of nationalism /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eppel, Michael, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Kurds > History.
Nationalism > Kurdistan.
Kurds > Ethnic identity.
Kurds > Middle East > History.
Kurdes > Histoire.
Nationalisme > Kurdistān.
Kurdes > Identité ethnique.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Kurds
Kurds > Ethnic identity
Nationalism
Politics and government
Ethnische Identität
Kurden
Nationalbewusstsein
Kurdistan > History.
Kurdistan > Politics and government.
Middle East
Middle East > Kurdistan
Kurdistan
Kurdistan (région transfrontière)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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