The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq - Couverture souple

Bashkin, Orit

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804773661 ISBN 13 : 9780804773669

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Other Iraq challenges the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence. Chronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, this enlightening work reveals that the Iraqi intellectual field was always more democratic and pluralistic than historians have tended to believe.

Orit Bashkin demonstrates how Sunni, Shi'i, and Kurdish intellectuals effectively created hyphenated Iraqi identities, connoting pride in their individual heritages while simultaneously appropriating and integrating ideas and narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalism. Illustrating three developmental stages of Iraqi intellectual history, she follows Iraqi intellectuals' changing roles, from agents of democracy, to specialists who analyze the population, to deeply entrenched members of society committed to change. Based on previously unexplored material, this eye-opening work has significant contemporary implications.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Orit Bashkin is Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804773661
• ISBN 13: 9780804773669
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
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• Personne responsable: non disponible