The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power, and Ideology - Rilegato

Haj, Samira

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0791432416 ISBN 13: 9780791432419

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 1997

Riassunto

This book's innovative approach makes it an important intervention into the field of modern Iraqi and Arab history. Samira Haj's discussion of the factors that led to, and paradoxically caused the failure of, the 1958 revolution in Iraq forms the framework for her critique of conventional Eurocentric notions of nationalism, revolution, and modernity. Haj explains the pervasive violence of Iraq's political scene not by invoking ageless images of sectarian strife and irrational bloodlust but by showing that the violent political battles of the 1950s and 1960s were the result of fundamental changes in the system of ownership and agricultural production during the nineteenth century. Furthermore, she shows that the national government's smashing of the popular movement and the dismantling of its various grassroots organizations in 1963 signified the beginning of the end of participatory politics in Iraq.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Samira Haj is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University.

Product Description:

Book by Haj Samira

Su questa edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0791432416
• ISBN 13: 9780791432419
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 215