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The making of Iraq, 1900-1963 : capital, power, and ideology / Samira Haj.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle EastPublication details: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585089663
  • 9780585089669
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making of Iraq, 1900-1963.DDC classification:
  • 956.704 20
LOC classification:
  • DS79 .H27 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 15.75
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- PART I: THE FORMATION OF CAPITAL: Land, power, and commercialization -- Peasant economy and merchant capital -- Industry -- PART II: THE NATION-STATE: POLITICS AND REVOLUTION: State crisis and the end of the oligarchic monarchy -- The Revolution of 1958 and its defeat -- PART III: EPILOGUE: Epilogue.
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Summary: 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. --From publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) index.

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Introduction -- PART I: THE FORMATION OF CAPITAL: Land, power, and commercialization -- Peasant economy and merchant capital -- Industry -- PART II: THE NATION-STATE: POLITICS AND REVOLUTION: State crisis and the end of the oligarchic monarchy -- The Revolution of 1958 and its defeat -- PART III: EPILOGUE: Epilogue.

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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. --From publisher's description.

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