A history of Iraq / Charles Tripp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tripp, Charles.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq--History--1921-.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Chronology

Glossary

List of abbreviations

Map 1 Iraq : principal towns

Map 2 Basra, Kuwait and the Shatt al-ʻArab

Map 3 Iraq and the Middle East

Map 4 Kurdish Iraq

Introduction

1. The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul

Power in the three provinces

The Ottoman 'reconquest' of the three provinces

Sultan Abdulhamid II and the young Turks

The Committee of Union and Progress and its opponents

2. The British mandate

British occupation and reactions

The Iraqi revolt of 1920

The institutional definition of the state

Mandate and treaty

The Mosul question : territory and oil

Different communities, different purposes, different histories

Emerging trends in politics and the economy

3. The Hashemite monarchy 1932-41

Communal identities and tribal unrest

Social criticism and political conspiracy

The coup d'état of 1936

Military politics : pan-Arabism and army conspiracies

Iraq in the Second World War

The coup d'état of 1941 and the British military occupation

4. The Hashemite monarchy 1941-58

Re-establishing the regime

Thwarted liberalisation

Foreign policies : Arab issues, Palestine and the Portsmouth Treaty

Economic development and party politics

Nuri al-Saʻid : the politics of reform and repression

Nuri al-Saʻid : foreign initiatives and domestic challenges

The coup d'état of 1958.

5. The republic 1958-68

ʻAbd al-Karim Qasim : dictatorship and disillusion

Iraqi foreign policy under Qasim

The politics of conspiracy and the coup d'état of February 1963

Baʻthist control and loss of control in 1963

ʻAbd al-Salam ʻArif : Nasserist aspirations and Iraqi realities

Patrimonialism and the rule of the clan

ʻAbd al-Rahman ʻArif : a weakening hold on power

6. The Baʻth and the rule of Saddam Husain 1968-2003

Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and the consolidation of power

Kurdish and Shiʻi challenges and relations with Iran

Economic patronage, political control and foreign policy alignments

War in Kurdistan

Oil revenues, foreign policies and the rise of Saddam Husain

Saddam Husain's presidency and the war with Iran in 1980

Defending the regime and Iraq after 1982

A war of attrition 1984-8

Resistance amongst the Kurds and the Shiʻa

The aftermath of war and the invasion of Kuwait 1988-90

The war for Kuwait and the uprisings of 1991

Iraq under sanctions and the long aftermath of the Gulf war

Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish politics

The 'shadow state' in Iraq

War and the fall of Saddam Husain

7. The American occupation and the parliamentary republic

The rule of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

New institutions and old politics

Insurgency, sectarianism and the spectre of civil war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-348) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Tripp, Charles. History of Iraq.

ISBN:

9780511804304 (electronic bk.)

051180430X (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99991376122

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