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The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and
comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic
features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region
known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the
field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any
understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish
language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age
of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan;
and domestic political developments in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora,
political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh
perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting
an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary
developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within
broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of
the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
In recent years, the persecution of the Kurds in the Middle East
under ISIS in Iraq and Syria has drawn increasing attention from
the international media. In this book, Veli Yadirgi analyses the
socioeconomic and political structures and transformations of the
Kurdish people from the Ottoman era through to the modern Turkish
Republic, arguing that there is a symbiotic relationship between
the Kurdish question and the de-development of the predominantly
Kurdish domains, making an ideal read for historians of the region
and those studying the socio-political and economic evolution of
the Kurds. First outlining theoretical perspectives on Kurdish
identity, socioeconomic development and the Kurdish question,
Yadirgi then explores the social, economic and political origins of
Ottoman Kurdistan following its annexation by the Ottomans in 1514.
Finally, he deals with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the
subsequent foundation and evolution of the Kurdish question in the
new Turkish Republic.
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