Introduction - Kurdish identity and social formation. Part 1 The Kurds in the age of tribe and empire: Kurdistan before the 19th century; Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800-1850; Ottoman Kurdistan, 1850-1914; the Qajars and the Kurds; revolution, nationalism and war, 1908-1918. Part 2 Incorporating the Kurds: redrawing the map - the partition of Ottoman Kurdistan; the Kurds, Britain and Iraq; incorporating Turkey's Kurds; the Kurds under Reza Shah. Part 3 Ethno-nationalism in Iran: tribe or ethnicity? - the Mahabad Republic; Iran - creating a national movement; subjects of the Shi'i Republic. Part 4 Ethno-nationalism in Iraq: the birth of a nationalist movement under Hashimite Rule; the Kurds in revolutionary Iraq; the Kurds under the Baath, 1968-1975; the road to genocide, 1975-1988; uprising and self-rule. Part 5 Ethno-nationalism in Turkey: the Kurdish national revival in Turkey, 1946-1979; the PKK and the mass movement. Afterword - retrospect and prospect. Appendix: the treaty of Sevres.
David McDowall is an acknowledged expert on the Kurds and author of Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond (IBT 1989).
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