The making of Iraq, 1900-1963 : capital, power, and ideology /

The making of Iraq, 1900-1963 : capital, power, and ideology /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Haj, Samira, 1945-
Imprint:	Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.
Subject:	Iraq -- History -- Hashemite Kingdom, 1921-1958. Iraq -- History -- 1958- Iraq. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11104599

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ISBN:	0585089663 9780585089669 0791432416 0791432424 9780791432419 9780791432426
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	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. --From publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Haj, Samira, 1945- Making of Iraq, 1900-1963. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1997 0791432416

Table of Contents:

Introduction
PART I: THE FORMATION OF CAPITAL: Land, power, and commercialization
Peasant economy and merchant capital
Industry
PART II: THE NATION-STATE: POLITICS AND REVOLUTION: State crisis and the end of the oligarchic monarchy
The Revolution of 1958 and its defeat
PART III: EPILOGUE: Epilogue.