Kurdistan
Subtitle: in the shadow of history
By: Susan Meiselas ; with historical introductions and a new postscript by Martin van Bruinessen.
Contributors: Bruinessen, Martin van.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780226519272; 9780226519289
Subjects: Kurds -- Pictorial works.; Kurdistan -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction by Susan Meiselas; value: Before the great war : travelers and missionaries as witness; value: From empires to nation-states; value: Conflicting claims on eastern Turkey; value: British occupation of Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq; value: Resistance to centralization in Iran; value: Rebellions in Turkey; value: Under the Iraqi monarchy; value: The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad; value: A Kurdish state; value: Uneasy coexistence; value: Order restored in Iraq; value: The monarchy consolidates in Iran; value: Behind the Iron Curtain; value: Identity contested in Turkey; value: Armed struggle for autonomy; value: The republic of Iraq; value: The Islamic revolution in Iran; value: The military takes control in Turkey; value: After the Cold War; value: From genocide to safe haven in Iraq; value: Polarization in Turkey; value: Epilogue; value: Postscript, ten years later.