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By Beth K. Dougherty,Edmund A. Ghareeb

Few international locations boast as lengthy and sometimes proud a historical past as Iraq. it may be traced again hundreds of thousands of years and contains excessive issues with Sumer, Babylon and the Assyrians. It later got here below Muslim rule, and in addition completed substantial development, purely to be conquered by means of the Mongols, Ottomans, Mamluks and British. So it was once really simply in 1932 that smooth Iraq was once a minimum of officially in charge of its personal future, and back underwent enormous ups and downs, such a lot lately lower than the robust yet eventually damaging rule of Saddam Hussein, who has given that been changed via what continues to be a regularly ineffectual meantime regime.

This lengthy and tortuous direction is traced within the Historical Dictionary of Iraq, whose chronology begins within the 12 months 6500 and leads to the yr 2012, an amazingly lengthy stretch. thankfully, this is often positioned into viewpoint within the creation, which is helping readers comprehend what went correct, and what went fallacious, over this era of millennia. The dictionary part then presents extra details on major folks, areas and occasions, historic civilizations and newer regimes, political events and associations, in addition to extra more often than not the economic climate, society, tradition and ethnic teams, and regrettably the wars. This ebook is a superb entry element for college students, researchers, and a person eager to understand extra approximately Iraq.

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