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| Genre/Form: | Pictorial works |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Meiselas, Susan. Kurdistan. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 (OCoLC)741993941 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Meiselas; Martin van Bruinessen |
| ISBN: | 9780226519272 0226519279 9780226519289 0226519287 |
| OCLC Number: | 173683832 |
| Description: | xvii, 429, [25] p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction by Susan Meiselas -- 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 -- Postscript, ten years later. |
| Responsibility: | Susan Meiselas ; with historical introductions and a new postscript by Martin van Bruinessen. |
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