Modern History of the Kurds.

Modern History of the Kurds.

_' ... 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 s...

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Main Author: McDowall, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2003.
Subjects:
Kurds.
National characteristics, Kurdish.
National characteristics, Kurdish
Kurds
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Appendix 2
  • The Kurds of SyriaAppendix 3
  • The Kurds in Lebanon; Appendix 4
  • The Kurds of the Caucasus; Index.

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