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Understanding Iraq (Paperback)
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Understanding Iraq (Paperback)
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To understand Iraq, and the dynamics at work there, it is essential
to know the country's history. This is self-evident to the point of
being a cliche. But 12,000 years of history can be intimidating. In
"Understanding Iraq", one of the world's most respected Middle East
historians provides a highly readable yet intelligent digest,
taking the reader on a sweeping tour from the first Sumerian
settlements on to the Babylonians, the dramatic advent of Islam,
the destructive invasion of the Mongols, centuries of Ottoman rule,
in to the turbulent twentieth century and today's experiments in
Western styles of democracy. Fast-paced and full of vivid detail
"Understanding Iraq" helps the reader comprehend this complicated
nation, struggling today to reconcile its diversities and
contradictions: Arab and Kurd, Shii and Sunni, traditionalist and
modern, secular and religious, pragmatic and radical. Polk
culminates in a damning indictment of the US for failing to learn
the lessons of history in Iraq. He sets out those lessons here in a
compelling and fascinating narrative.
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