Modern History of the Kurds

Name: Modern History of the Kurds
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ISBN: 9781850434160

ISBN-10: 1850434166

ISBN-13: 9781850434160

Edition: 3rd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: David McDowall

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In this comprehensive history of the Kurds from the 19th century to the present day, David McDowall examines the old and new aspects of the struggle, and the failure of modern states to respond to the challenge of Kurdish nationalism.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Publication date: 5/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

David McDowall has written widely on Middle Eastern and British history. He now writes and publishes walkers' guides to publicly-accessible landscapes. To see them, please click here .Contributor image ï¿½ Angus McDowall



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Sources


Acknowledgement


Foreword



Introduction: Kurdish Identity and Social Formation



The Kurds in the Age of Tribe and Empire



Kurdistan before the Nineteenth Century



Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800-1850



Ottoman Kurdistan, 1850-1914



The Qajars and the Kurds



Revolution, Nationalism and War, 1908-1918



Incorporating the Kurds



Redrawing the Map: The Partition of Ottoman Kurdistan



The Kurds, Britain and Iraq



Incorporating Turkey's Kurds



The Kurds under Reza Shah



Ethno-nationalism in Iran



Tribe or Ethnicity? The Mahabad Republic



Iran: Creating a National Movement



Subjects of the Shi'i Republic



Ethno-nationalism in Iraq



The Birth of a Nationalist Movement under Hashimite Rule



The Kurds in Revolutionary Iraq



The Kurds under the Baath, 1968-1975



The Road to Genocide, 1975-1988



Uprising and Self-rule



Ethno-nationalism in Turkey



The Kurdish National Revival in Turkey, 1946-1979



The PKK and the Mass Movement



The Kurds in Exile: building the nation


Afterword



The Treaty of Sevres



The Kurds of Syria



The Kurds of Lebanon



The Kurds of the Caucasus


Index