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Modern History of Iraq
Phebe Marr
"A wealth of detail and acute insights into the evolution of modern Iraq... indispensable." Bernard Reich
Westview Press
August 2003
384 pages ISBN: 0813336155 Hardcover (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
The second edition of a highly respected history of Iraq
since the construction of the modern state in 1920. Written
for lay readers and students of the Middle East, The Modern
History of Iraq, Second Edition, places in historical
perspective the multiple crises and upheavals that afflict
contemporary Iraq. The book focuses on several important
themes: the search for national identity in a multi-ethnic,
multi-religious state; the struggle to achieve economic
development and modernity in a traditional society; and the
political dynamics that have led to the current dire
situation in Iraq. While much remains opaque about
contemporary Iraq because of its closed political system,
Marr has used published sources in Arabic and English,
personal interviews, and frequent visits to Iraq to produce
a remarkably lucid and readable account of the emergence of
contemporary Iraq and the forces that have shaped it.
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