City of black gold: oil, ethnicity, and the making of modern Kirkuk 9781503608122, 9781503609136, 9781503609143, 1503608123, 1503609138

Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population. It was also where, in 1927, a

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Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Note on Languages and Transliteration......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 22
1 The Forging of Iraq......Page 40
2 The British Mandate......Page 72
3 Oil and Urban Growth......Page 100
4 The Ideology of Urban Development......Page 128
5 The Intercommunal Fight......Page 156
6 Nationalization and Arabization......Page 186
Conclusion......Page 210
Note on Sources and Archives......Page 220
Notes......Page 226
Bibliography......Page 268
A......Page 282
B......Page 283
C......Page 284
E......Page 285
G......Page 286
I......Page 287
K......Page 288
L......Page 290
M......Page 291
O......Page 292
Q......Page 293
T......Page 294
U......Page 295
Y......Page 296

City of black gold: oil, ethnicity, and the making of modern Kirkuk
 9781503608122, 9781503609136, 9781503609143, 1503608123, 1503609138

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