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A history of Iraq
Author
Title
A history of Iraq / Charles Tripp.
ISBN
9780521878234
0521878233
9780521702478 (pbk.)
052170247X (pbk.)
Edition
3rd ed.
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-348) and index.
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.
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