| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 279 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Amatzia Baram, Ronen Zeidel, and Achim Rohde -- Part I: Iraq between a Nation State and Ethno/Sectarian Divides: A Re/appraisal -- One Iraq or Many: What has happened to Iraqi Identity? / Phebe Marr -- Kurds, Arabs and Iraqis: A History of a Clash of Identities / Sherko Kirmanj -- The Kurdish Phoenix: Nation/Building in a Failed Iraqi Nation/State / Ofra Bengio -- A Kurdish Leadership in Iraq: Facing the New Challenges, the Danger and the Chances of the Post/Saddam Era / Michael Eppel -- Part II: Aspects of Iraqi History under the Monarchy -- The Roots of Democratic Thinking in Iraq and their Contemporary Implications: Discourses on Democracy in the Hashemite Period 1921-1958 through the Vision of 'Abd al/Fattah Ibrahim' / Orit Bashkin -- Women under the Monarchy: A Backdrop for Post/Saddam Events / Noga Efrati -- Part III: The Ba'th Era and Beyond -- Understanding Ba'thist Iraq? Toward a Comparative Historiography of Dictatorships / Achim Rohde -- Sadr the Father, Sadr the Son, and the 'Revolution in Shi'ism' / Amatzia Baram -- On Servility and Survival: the Sunni Opposition to Saddam and the Origins of the Current Sunni Leadership in Iraq / Ronen Zeidel -- The Iraqi Military under the Ba'th Regime: the Case of the Iraqi Armed Forces in Operation Desert Storm and the Impact of Desert Storm on its Performance in Operation Iraqi Freedom / Pesah Malovany -- Iraq's Economy 2003-2008 / Joseph Sassoon -- Part IV: The US in Iraq 2003-2007/8 -- The U.S. in Iraq: The Dual Challenge of Insurgent and Sectarian Violence / Michael Eisenstadt -- Amateur Hour in Iraq: A Worm's Eye View of the Failure of Nation Building / A. Heather Coyne -- Until They Leave: Liberation, Occupation, and Insurgency in Iraq / Judith Yaphe |
| Summary |
A fresh look at Iraqi history through the twentieth century until today, this book identifies continuities and breaks in the Iraqi experience. It combines chapters that provide each an expansive bird's/eye view of a key issue spanning a century with chapters that focus on more specific case studies that have been largely overlooked so far but such that are of great significance for Iraq's present and future. Some of the events and developments discussed were enforced from the outside and some grew out of particular and historically changing configurations within Iraqi society, but all are highly relevant to the understanding of contemporary Iraq. Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters focus on such topics as the changing features of the of Iraqi identity, the rise of Iraqi nationalism alongside competing identities, ethnic and sectarian communalism, the role of women, Iraq's military history, the Iraqi economy, state building after the 2003 invasion, and a comparative discussion of the British and U.S. colonial adventures and the implications of those developments for the future of the country. The volume raises some pertinent questions on the way Iraqi history and present are interpreted and adds knowledge to the existing scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- General.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1921-1958. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001766
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Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1958- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98002761
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| Subject |
Iraq
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baram, Amatzia, 1938-
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Rohde, Achim, 1969-
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Zeidel, Ronen.
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| ISBN |
9780230115491 |
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0230115497 |
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9781349290611 |
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1349290610 |
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