Kurdistan : crafting of national selves / Christopher Houston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houston, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurds--History.

Kurds.

History.

Kurdistan--History.

Kurdistan.

Physical Description:

vi, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2008]

Summary:

Kurdistan provides an introduction to and a succinct history of the idea of Kurdistan, the imagined homeland of the Kurds. Christopher Houston examines the historiography, ethnography, and changing political status of the Kurdish regions vis-a-vis the Ottoman and British empires, and considers the responses of Kurds to the nation-building missions of modern Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. These projects, driven by ambitious elites in the modernizing capitals of new nation-states, were accompanied by varying degrees of intolerance toward minority ethnic languages, political institutions, and regional autonomy.

Contents:

Nationalizing origins

'Set aside from the pen and cut off from the foot' : imagining the Ottoman Empire and Kurdistan

Representing Kurds : a brief history of Kurds and Kurdistan in ethnography

Kemalism and the crafting of national selves in Kurdistan

Kurdish inhabitation of the 'Kemalist city'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.

ISBN:

0253220505

9780253220509

0253352703

9780253352705

OCLC:

237287966