Introduction; 1. The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul; 2. The British mandate; 3. The Hashemite monarchy 1932–41; 4. The Hashemite Monarchy 1941–58; 5. The Republic 1958–68; 6. The Ba'th and the rule of Saddam Husain; Conclusion.
The political history of Iraq, compellingly told for students and general readers.
Charles Tripp is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge Middle East Studies Series and author of Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (2006) and The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East (2013).
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'… by far the best and most serious history of Iraq to date.'
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'… the work's incisive analysis of making of a modern state and how
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'A History of Iraq provides a clear, dispassionate and
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thought provoking ideas on how people are actors in the creation of
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