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1 online resource (531 pages) |
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Maps; Sources; Acknowledgement; Foreword; 1. Introduction: Kurdish Identity and Social Formation; BOOK I: THE KURDS IN THE AGE OF TRIBE AND EMPIRE; 2. Kurdistan Before the Nineteenth Century; 3. Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800-1850; 4. Ottoman Kurdistan, 1850-1914; 5. The Qajars and the Kurds; 6. Revolution, Nationalism and War, 1908-1918; BOOK II: INCORPORATING THE KURDS; 7. Redrawing the Map: The Partition of Ottoman Kurdistan; 8. The Kurds, Britain and Iraq; 9. Incorporating Turkey's Kurds; 10. The Kurds under Reza Shah; BOOK III: ETHNO-NATIONALISM IN IRAN |
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11. Tribe or Ethnicity? The Mahabad Republic12. Iran: Creating a National Movement; 13. Subjects of the Shi'i Republic; BOOK IV: ETHNO-NATIONALISM IN IRAQ; 14. The Birth of a National Movement under Hashimite Rule; 15. The Kurds in Revolutionary Iraq; 16. The Kurds under the Baath, 1968-1975; 17. The Road to Genocide, 1975-1988; 18. Uprising and Self-Rule; BOOK V: ETHNO-NATIONALISM IN TURKEY; 19. The Kurdish National Revival in Turkey, 1946-1979; 20. The P.K.K and the Mass Movement; 21. The Kurds in Exile: Building the Nation; Afterword; Appendix 1 -- The Treaty of Sevres |
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Appendix 2 -- The Kurds of SyriaAppendix 3 -- The Kurds in Lebanon; Appendix 4 -- The Kurds of the Caucasus; Index |
| Summary |
_' ... the best single narrative history of the Kurds ... it certainly belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the Middle East.'_ - *Washington Post Book World*_x000D__x000D_The division of the Kurdish people among four modern nation states - Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran - and their struggle for national rights have been constant themes of recent Middle East history. The Kurdish lands have been contested territory for many centuries. In this detailed history of the Kurds from the 19th century to the present day, McDowall examines the interplay of old and new aspects of the struggle, the im |
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Print version record |
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Kurds.
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National characteristics, Kurdish.
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National characteristics, Kurdish
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Kurds
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857714824 |
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0857714821 |
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