Kurdistan in the shadow of history
Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I, when the victorious powers carved up the Middle East, leaving the Kurds without a homeland. Today the Kurds, who live on land that straddles the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, are by far the largest ethnic group in the world without...
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University of Chicago Press
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Susan Meiselas
- Before the great war : travelers and missionaries as witness
- From empires to nation-states
- Conflicting claims on eastern Turkey
- British occupation of Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq
- Resistance to centralization in Iran
- Rebellions in Turkey
- Under the Iraqi monarchy
- The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad
- A Kurdish state
- Uneasy coexistence
- Order restored in Iraq
- The monarchy consolidates in Iran
- Behind the Iron Curtain
- Identity contested in Turkey
- Armed struggle for autonomy
- The republic of Iraq
- The Islamic revolution in Iran
- The military takes control in Turkey
- After the Cold War
- From genocide to safe haven in Iraq
- Polarization in Turkey
- Epilogue
- Postscript, ten years later