Entrée principale:

Meiselas, Susan.

Titre et auteur:

Kurdistan : in the shadow of history / Susan Meiselas ; with chapter commentaries by Martin van Bruinessen.

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Random House, ©1997.

Description:

xvii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Map of Kurdistan on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (page 383) and index.
Before the Great War: Travelers and missionaries as witness -- From empires to nation-states: Conflicting claims on eastern Turkey. British occupation of Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq. Resistance to centralization in Iran. Rebellions in Turkey. Under the Iraqi monarchy -- The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad: A Kurdish State -- Uneasy coexistence: Order restored in Iraq. The monarchy consolidates in Iran. Behind the Iron Curtain. Identity contested in Turkey -- Armed struggle for autonomy: The Republic of Iraq. The Islamic revolution in Iran. The military takes control in Turkey -- After the Cold War: From genocide to safe haven in Iraq. Polarization in Turkey -- Epilogue.

Résumé:

Attempts to create a national archive for the Kurds through a collection of photographs, documents, articles, memoirs, and other materials that together chronicle the history of the people who have been without a country since Kurdistan was eliminated at the end of World War I.

ISBN:

0679423893 (alk. paper)
9780679423898 (alk. paper)

Sujet:

Meiselas, Susan, 1948-.
Kurds Pictorial works.
Kurdes Ouvrages illustrés.
15.75 history of Asia.
Kurds
Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
Foto's.
CULTURAL HISTORY.
ETHNIC CONFLICT.
KURDISTAN.
KURDS.
Kurdistan Pictorial works.
Kurdistān Ouvrages illustrés.
Middle East Kurdistan
Turkey Ethnology.
Kurdistan
Kurdistan Ouvrages illustrés.
1890-1995

Classification/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Pictorial works (form)
Ouvrages illustrés.

Vedettes secondaires:

Bruinessen, Martin van.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 180618
Cote: ID DS59.K86.M44; ID:98-B993
Statut: Disponible