A Modern History of the Kurds

by McDowall, David

• ISBN13: 9781860645358
• ISBN10: 1860645356
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-06
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

This comprehensive chronicle of Kurdistan and its people is a revised and updated edition of David McDowall's acclaimed exploration of recent events in Iran, Iraq and Turkey, and it includes developments in Western Europe following the capture of Abdullah Ocalan. The division of Kurdistan among three modern nation states-Iraq, Turkey and Iran-and the struggle of the Kurdish people for national rights have never been as pressing as they are today.

Author Biography

David McDowall is a specialist on Middle Eastern affairs

Table of Contents

Maps	vii
Sources	viii
Acknowledgement	ix
Foreword	xi
Introduction: Kurdish Identity and Social Formation	1	(20)
Book I The Kurds in the Age of Tribe and Empire
Kurdistan before the Nineteenth Century	21	(17)
Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800--1850	38	(11)
Ottoman Kurdistan, 1850--1914	49	(17)
The Qajars and the Kurds	66	(21)
Revolution, Nationalism and War, 1908--1918	87	(28)
Book II Incorporating the Kurds
Redrawing the Map: The Partition of Ottoman Kurdistan	115	(36)
The Kurds, Britain and Iraq	151	(33)
Incorporating Turkey's Kurds	184	(30)
The Kurds under Reza Shah	214	(17)
Book III Ethno-nationalism in Iran
Tribe or Ethnicity? The Mahabad Republic	231	(18)
Iran: Creating a National Movement	249	(12)
Subjects of the Shi'i Republic	261	(26)
Book IV Ethno-nationalism in Iraq
The Birth of a Nationalist Movement under Hashimite Rule	287	(15)
The Kurds in Revolutionary Iraq	302	(21)
The Kurds under the Baath, 1968--1975	323	(20)
The Road to Genocide, 1975--1988	343	(25)
Uprising and Self-rule	368	(29)
Book V Ethno-nationalism in Turkey
The Kurdish National Revival in Turkey, 1946--1979	397	(23)
The PKK and the Mass Movement	420	(35)
The Kurds in Exile: building the nation	455	(7)
Afterword	462	(2)
Appendix 1 The Treaty of Sevres	464	(2)
Appendix 2 The Kurds of Syria	466	(19)
Appendix 3 The Kurds of Lebanon	485	(5)
Appendix 4 The Kurds of the Caucasus	490	(5)
Index	495