Author : Samira Haj
Release : 1997-02-13
Genre : History
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Making of Iraq, The, 1900-1963 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making of Iraq, The, 1900-1963 write by Samira Haj. This book was released on 1997-02-13. Making of Iraq, The, 1900-1963 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book's innovative approach makes it an important intervention into the field of modern Iraqi and Arab history. 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.