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Trapped between the map and reality : geography and perceptions of Kurdistan / Maria T. O'Shea.
Van Pelt Library DS59.K86 O84 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Shea, Maria T., 1963-
- Series:
- Middle East studies (Routledge (Firm))
- Middle East studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kurds--Ethnic identity.
- Kurds.
- Nationalism--Middle East.
- Nationalism.
- Middle East.
- Kurdistan--History.
- Kurdistan.
- Middle East--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 258 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Contents:
- Perceptions of centrality from the margins
- The social context of political fragmentation
- Defining a Kurdish identity
- Kurdistan's resources : real and imagined
- Tying down the territory : conceptions and misconceptions of early Kurdish history
- From province to principality to pawn: Kurdistan as a buffer zone
- The First World War
- The image from outside: strategic concerns
- The Colonial division of Kurdistan
- Kurdish constructions of Kurdistan
- Between the map and the reality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415947669
- OCLC:
- 52747246
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