The history of Iraq /
Since the early 1990s, Iraq (and its former dictator, Saddam Hussein) has been a fixture in Western media. However, few American adults know or understand the rich cultural history or the political forces that have shaped modern Iraq. As the future of Iraq is now being written, a clear understanding...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2005
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| Series: | Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Series foreword / Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline of historical events
- The land and people of Iraq
- The cradle of civilization
- Babylonia
- The Muslim conquest
- The Ottoman Empire
- The British occupation
- The kingdom of Iraq and the revolution of 1958
- A decade of revolutions and the rise of Saddam
- A decade of wars: the Iran-Iraq war and the first Gulf War
- Sanctions, the second Persian Gulf War and Iraq today
- Glossary
- Notable people in the history of Iraq
- Bibliographic essay
- Index.
