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A history of Iraq / Charles Tripp.
LIBRA DS79 .T75 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tripp, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq--History--1921-.
- Iraq.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second, new edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- A new updated edition of Tripp's political history of Iraq.
- Contents:
- Map 1 Iraq: principal towns xviii
- Map 2 Basra, Kuwait and the Shatt al-'Arab xix
- Map 3 Iraq in the Middle East xx
- 1 The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul 8
- Power in the three provinces 8
- The Ottoman 'reconquest' of the three provinces 13
- Sultan Abdulhamid II and the Young Turks 20
- The Committee of Union and Progress and its opponents 24
- 2 The British Mandate 30
- British occupation and reactions 31
- The Iraqi revolt of 1920 40
- The institutional definition of the state 45
- Mandate and treaty 52
- The Mosul question: territory and oil 58
- Different communities, different purposes, different histories 61
- Emerging trends in politics and the economy 65
- 3 The Hashemite monarchy 1932-41 77
- Communal identities and tribal unrest 79
- Social criticism and political conspiracy 84
- The coup d'etat of 1936 88
- Military politics: pan-Arabism and army conspiracies 94
- Iraq in the Second World War 99
- The coup d'etat of 1941 and the British military occupation 103
- 4 The Hashemite monarchy 1941-58 108
- Re-establishing the regime 110
- Thwarted liberalisation 114
- Foreign policies: Arab issues, Palestine and the Portsmouth Treaty 118
- Economic development and party politics 127
- Nuri al-Sa'id: the politics of reform and repression 132
- Nuri al-Sa'id: foreign initiatives and domestic challenges 139
- The coup d'etat of 1958 143
- 5 The republic 1958-68 148
- 'Abd al-Karim Qasim: dictatorship and disillusion 149
- Iraqi foreign policy under Qasim 163
- The politics of conspiracy and the coup d'etat of February 1963 167
- Ba'thist control and loss of control in 1963 170
- 'Abd al-Salam 'Arif: Nasserist aspirations and Iraqi realities 175
- Patrimonialism and the rule of the clan 181
- 'Abd al-Rahman 'Arif: a weakening hold on power 185
- 6 The Ba'th and the rule of Saddam Husain 193
- Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and the consolidation of power 194
- Kurdish and Shi'i challenges and relations with Iran 199
- Economic patronage, political control and foreign policy alignments 205
- War in Kurdistan 211
- Oil revenues, foreign policies and the rise of Saddam Husain 214
- Saddam Husain's presidency and the war with Iran in 1980 223
- Defending the regime and Iraq after 1982 235
- A war of attrition 1984-8 238
- Resistance among the Kurds and the Shi'a 243
- The aftermath of war and the invasion of Kuwait 1988-90 248
- The war for Kuwait and the uprisings of 1991 253
- Iraq under sanctions and the long aftermath of the Gulf war 259
- The resilience of Saddam Husain's regime 264
- Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish politics 271
- The limitations of opposition 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 307-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521821487
- 052152900X
- OCLC:
- 50480288
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