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Iraq Under Qassem


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Éditeur : Israel Universities Press Date & Lieu : 1969, Jerusalem
Préface : Pages : 412
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Langue : AnglaisFormat : 160x235 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. Dan. Ira. 1258Thème : Général

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Iraq Under Qassem


Iraq Under Qassem

Uriel Dann

Israel Universities Press


Ever since Iraq attained statehood in 1920, its leaders have had to contend with powerful forces of fragmentation. These have operated in the past and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Their cumulative effect up to the revolution of 1958 will be briefly analyzed in this Introduction.

Iraq is not a geopolitical unit. The country is divided into three sharply defined geographical areas. The valley of the Euphrates and the Tigris, river-irrigated and containing some of the most fertile agricultural soil on earth, opens towards the Indian Ocean; it is from here that British influence, ultimately leading to British occupation, penetrated. The mountains of the north and the north-east, rain-fed and poor of soil, adjoin the Armenian Knot which fans out east and west, towards Turkey and Iran, as well as southwards. The steppes of the west, arid and scarcely habitable, merge by degrees into the Mediterranean hinterland towards the north and Arabia in the south.

There is no “Iraqi nation”, nor is there a tradition of cooperation to cement the various communities. This heterogeneity has had a decisive effect on the political life of the country.

The leading political element in Iraq are the Sunni Arabs who populate ...


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Uriel Dann

Iraq Under Qassem
A Political History, 1958-1963

Israel Universities Press


Israel Universities Press
Iraq Under Qassem
A Political History, 1958-1963
Uriel Dann

Reuven Shiloah Research Center
Tel Aviv University

Praeger - Pall Mall

Published in the United States of America in 1969 by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc.,
Publishers 111 Fourth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003

Published in Great Britain in 1969 by Pall Mall Press
5, Cromwell Place, London, S.W. 7

Published in Israel by Israel Universities Press,
Jerusalem, Israel. 1969.

©Uriel Dann, Jerusalem, 1969

All rights reserved

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-54317

SBN: 269 67064 5

This book has been composed and
printed at the Israel Program for
Scientific Translations, Jerusalem,
Israel; 1969.

The Reuven Shiloah Research Center forms a part of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. Its main purpose is to contribute, by research, to the expansion of knowledge and understanding of the modern history and current affairs, both political and social, of the Middle East and Africa; emphasis is laid on fields where Israel scholarship is in a position to make specialized contributions.

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