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Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam

✍ Scribed by Geoff Simons (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Leaves
456
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
After the 1991 Gulf War....Pages 3-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Ancient Crucible....Pages 113-138
The Arabs, Islam and the Caliphate....Pages 139-159
Seljuks, Mongols and Ottomans....Pages 160-180
The Western Impact....Pages 181-223
From Monarchy to Republic....Pages 224-270
Into the Era of Saddam....Pages 271-329
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
War with the West....Pages 333-381
Back Matter....Pages 382-444

✦ Subjects

Asian History; Middle Eastern Politics; Political Science

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