Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam
✍ Scribed by Geoff Simons (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 417
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
After the 1991 Gulf War....Pages 3-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Ancient Crucible....Pages 79-104
The Arabs, Islam and the Caliphate....Pages 105-125
Seljuks, Mongols and Ottomans....Pages 126-146
The Western Impact....Pages 147-189
From Monarchy to Republic....Pages 190-236
Into the Era of Saddam....Pages 237-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
War with the West....Pages 299-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-406
✦ Subjects
History of the Middle East
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