Includes bibliographical references, filmography (p. 299-304) and index.
Contents:
Culture and history of Iraq : ancient Mesopotamia to the British mandate -- From the British mandate to the 1958 revolution -- The Iraq revolution and the establishment of the Baathist regime -- Saddam Hussein, the Iranian revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War -- The invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Persian Gulf War -- The Iraq War : causes, invasion, and postinvasion policies -- Iraq in the context of previous US interventions and the Vietnam War -- Postinvasion Iraq : occupation and insurgency -- Counterinsurgency and US corporate presence -- Impacts of the Iraq War.
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