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Kurdistan : in the shadow of history
- Title
- Kurdistan : in the shadow of history / Susan Meiselas ; with chapter commentaries by Martin van Bruinessen.
- Author
- Meiselas, Susan.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, ©1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Bruinessen, Martin van.
- Description
- xvii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 31 cm
- Summary
- Attempts to create a national archive for the Kurds through a collection of photographs, documents, articles, memoirs, and other materials that together chronicle the history of the people who have been without a country since Kurdistan was eliminated at the end of World War I.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Pictorial works
- Pictorial works (form)
- Illustrated works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Map of Kurdistan on endpapers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Before the Great War: Travelers and missionaries as witness -- From empires to nation-states: Conflicting claims on eastern Turkey. British occupation of Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq. Resistance to centralization in Iran. Rebellions in Turkey. Under the Iraqi monarchy -- The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad: A Kurdish State -- Uneasy coexistence: Order restored in Iraq. The monarchy consolidates in Iran. Behind the Iron Curtain. Identity contested in Turkey -- Armed struggle for autonomy: The Republic of Iraq. The Islamic revolution in Iran. The military takes control in Turkey -- After the Cold War: From genocide to safe haven in Iraq. Polarization in Turkey -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0679423893
- 9780679423898
- LCCN
- 96053931
- OCLC
- ocm36159518
- 36159518
- SCSB-103085
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library