The history of Iraq
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Series foreword / Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline of historical events
- The land and people of Iraq
- The cradle of civilization
- Babylonia
- The Muslim conquest
- The Ottoman Empire
- The British occupation
- The kingdom of Iraq and the revolution of 1958
- A decade of revolutions and the rise of Saddam
- A decade of wars: the Iran-Iraq war and the first Gulf War
- Sanctions, the second Persian Gulf War and Iraq today
- Glossary
- Notable people in the history of Iraq
- Bibliographic essay
- Index.