A History of Iraq

by Charles Tripp

• ISBN13: 9780521529006
• ISBN10: 052152900X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This updated edition of Charles Tripp's A History of Iraq covers events since 1998, and looks at present-day developments right up to mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive regimes, culminating in the dictatorship of Saddam Husain. Tripp traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy of Saddam Husain. This is a story of social conflict, of power struggles between rival clans, of hostility and wars with neighboring states, as well as of their aftermath, and Iraq's deteriorating relations with the West. The book offers an incisive analysis of the making of a modern state and how it creates its own distinctive politics.

Author Biography

Charles Tripp is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul

2. The British mandate

3. The Hashemite monarchy 1932-41

4. The Hashemite monarchy 1941-58

5. The Republic 1958-68

6. The Ba'th and the rule of Saddam Husain

Conclusion.