A documentary history of modern iraq /
Previously published histories and primary source collections on the Iraqi experience tend to be topically focused or dedicated to presenting a top-down approach. By contrast, Stacy Holden's A Documentary History of Modern Iraq gives voice to ordinary Iraqis, clarifying the experience of the Sh...
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Table of Contents:
- Ottoman Mesopotamia, 1903-1920
- The wedding of Regina, 1903
- Lt. Col. Sir Mark Sykes on Mosul, 1906
- The young Turk proclamation of 1908
- Jafar al-Askari on corrupt Ottoman administration in Iraq
- Sultan Abdul Hamid deposed, 1909
- Tribal rebellion near Mosul, 1909
- Baghdad petition, 1910
- British military rule in Basra
- The horrors of World War I
- The proclamation of Baghdad, 19 March 1917
- The war viewed from Baghdad
- The British mandate, 1920-1932
- Iraqi nationalism
- Nationalist poetry
- The revolt of 1920
- Lawrence of Arabia opposes Iraqi mandate
- Winston Churchill outlines Middle East policy
- The Kurdish "election" of King Faysal
- King Faysal's coronation speech, 1921
- Shi'is oppose (rigged) elections
- The Hashemite Monarchy, 1932-1941
- Faysal expresses intention to protect minorities, 1932
- Pan-Arab nationalism
- Faysal I promotes Pan-Arabism, 1932
- The Assyrian affair, 1933
- The Bakr Sidqi Coup of 1936
- Rising anti-Semitism in Baghdad
- The Shi'i celebration of Ashura
- Elegy to the poor
- Ending the old regime, 1941-1958
- The Farhud
- Rules for American soldiers in Iraq during World War II
- The treaty of Portsmouth, 15 January 1948
- Intellectual life in Baghdad
- Poverty in Baghdad
- The evolution of a communist
- Law no. 1 of 1950
- The exodus of Kurdish Jews
- Life in a Shi'i village
- The revolutionary era, 1958-1968
- American response to Qasim's coup d? état
- Corruption and inequality
- An American view of revolutionary Iraq
- Mutiny in Mosul, March 1959
- The social lives of women in revolutionary Iraq
- The Kurdish revolt, 1961-1963
- Consolidating Ba'thist power, 1968-1979
- U.S. response to the Ba'thist coup, July 1968
- The Ba'thist constitution, 1970
- The Jewish exodus under the Ba'th
- Pan-Arab cultural production
- Women in Ba'thist Iraq
- History and Ba'thist totalitarianism
- The United States considers assistance to Kurds, 1972
- The 1974-1975 war in Kurdish Iraq
- Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and the principle of social justice
- Ba'thist response to Shi'i protests, 1979
- The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1990
- Saddam Hussein justifies the war
- The Iran-Iraq War through a general's eyes
- The United States supports Ba'thist Iraq
- The Iran-Iraq War through a soldier's eyes
- The front line
- The home front
- Al Anfal
- The end of the war
- The Persian Gulf War and sanctions, 1990-2002
- Ambassador April Glaspie meets with Saddam Hussein
- "Null and void": UN Sc Res 662, 9 August 1990
- "All necessary means": UN Sc Res 678, 29 November 1990
- The Persian Gulf War experienced in Baghdad
- The Persian Gulf War wreaks regional havoc
- "After the storm": winning the war, but losing the peace
- Denis Halliday protests the sanctions regime
- The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
- The deleterious effects of sanctions on Iraqi women
- The invasion of Iraq, 2001-2003
- Saddam Hussein responds to 9/11
- Brent Scowcroft opposes invasion of Iraq
- President Bush argues for war
- An Iraqi elegy to Baghdad
- The Battle of Nasiriyah
- The occupation of Baghdad
- The pillaging of the national museum
- Saddam Hussein responds to invasion
- President Bush's "mission accomplished" speech
- The occupation of Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority, 2003-2004
- Civilians and the front line
- Lt. Paul Bremer forms a governing council
- Women during the Iraq War
- A Sunni insurgent
- Shi'i disillusionment
- The rules of engagement
- The coffins of Muqdadiyah
- Operation Devil Siphon
- The lot of children.
