Bibliography:Iraq (original) (raw)
Braude, Joseph, The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East and the World, NYC, Basic Books, 2003. ISBN: 0465007880 Buy-Review This currently popular book offers a vision for rebuilding Iraq.
Butler, Richard and James C. Roy, The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security, NYC, Public Affairs, 2001. ISBN: 1586480391 Buy-Review Former UN inspector Butler explains the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction that Iraq is supposedly developing.
Cordesman, Anthony, _After the Storm, Denver, Westview Press,_1993. Documents the after-effects of Gulf Storm.
Darwish, Adel and Gregory Alexander, Unholy Babylon: The Secret History of Saddam's War, London, Diane, 1991.This fascinating book documents how the Saddam Hussein monster was created, and how the West, including the US encouraged his aggression until it was too late. It has been reprinted several times and remains the classic book about the war.
Hamza, Khidir, Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon, NYC, Touchstone Books, 2001. ISBN: 0743211359 Buy-Review Khidir Hamza claims he was in charge of the Iraqi nuclear program, and details Saddam's plans to acquire nuclear weapons. His credentials have been challenged by some, but he makes a very convincing case.
Kristol, William and Lawrence F. Kaplan,The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission, NYC, Encounter Books, 2003. ISBN: 1893554694 The neoconservative case for US intervention in Iraq.
Pitt, William Rivers and Scott Ritter , War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know, NYC, Context Books, 2003. ISBN: 1893956385
Buy-Reviews Former UN inspector Scott Ritter claims in this book that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. If you want the opposite opinion, read his other book instead.
Ritter, Scott, Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis, NYC, Simon and Schuster, 2002. ISBN: 0743247728. Buy-Reviews Former UN inspector Scott Ritter claims in this book that Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, and that decisive action is required before it is too late.
Solomon, Norman et. al. Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, NYC, Context Books, 2003. ISBN: 1893956393 Buy-Reviews A recent and popular book that makes the case against intervention in Iraq.
Tripp, Charles , History of Iraq, London, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. This recent history of Iraq is quite popular.
Abdulghani, Jasim M., Iraq and Iran: The Years of Crisis, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984, ISBN: 0-801825199, Buy/Reviews.
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Atkinson, Rick, Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War, NYC, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1994.
Axelgard, Frederick W. (ed.), Iraq In Transition: A Political, Economic, and Strategic Perspective, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1986.
Baali, Fuad, Relation of the People to the Land in Southern Iraq (University of Florida Monographs, Social Sciences, No. 31, Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1966.
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Batatu, Hanna, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes, and of Its Communists, Baathists, and Free Officers, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1978.
Berg, Nancy, Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq, NYC, State University of New York, 1996.
Braude, Joseph, The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East and the World, NYC, Basic Books, 2003, ISBN: 0-465-0078-80, Buy/Reviews.
Brauer, Erich, The Jews of Kurdistan, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1993.
Bruinessen, Martin van, Kurds and Identity Politics, London, I.B. Tauris, 2001, ISBN: 1-86064-571-2, Buy/Reviews.
Bulloch, John and Harvey Morris, No Friends But the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Butler, Richard and James C. Roy, The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security, NYC, Public Affairs, 2001, ISBN: 1586480391,Buy/Reviews.
Clawson, Patrick (ed.), How to Build a New Iraq After Saddam, Washington, DC, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2002, ISBN: 0944029825, Buy/Reviews.
Cockburn, Andrew and , Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, NYC, Harper, 2000.
Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Right (ed.), Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or Reaction, London, Zed Books, 1986.
Cordesman, Anthony, After the Storm, Denver, Westview Press, 1993.
Cordesman, Anthony H., The Iran-Iraq War: 1984-1986, Rosslyn, Virginia, Eaton Analytical Assessments Center, 1986.
Cordesman, Anthony H., Hashim, Ahmed, Iraq : Sanctions and Beyond (Csis Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment), Denver, Westview Press, 1997.
Cordesman, Anthony and Abraham Wagner, The Lessons of Modern War. Vol. I The Iran-Iraq War, Bouldeer, CO, Westview Press, 1990.
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Darwish, Adel and Gregory Alexander, Unholy Babylon : The Secret History of Saddam's War, London, Diane, 1991.
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Farouk-Sluglett, Marion and Sluglett, Peter, Iraq Since 1958, London, I.B. Tauris, 1990.
Feldman, Shai (ed.), After the War in Iraq: Defining the New Strategic Balance, Brighton, Sussex, 2003,ISBN: 1903900751, Buy/Reviews.
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, Anchor, 1969, ISBN: 0-385014856, Buy/Reviews.
Fernea, Robert Alan, Shaykh and Effendi; changing patterns of authority among the El Shabana of southern Iraq, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1970.
Fuad, Jamal, The Kurdish question: Missed opportunities and future challenges, Tallahassee, FL, Badlisy Center for Kurdish Studies, 1993.
Gabbay, Rony, Communism and Agrarian Reform in Iraq, London, Croom Helm, 1978.
Gallman, Waldemar, Iraq Under General Nuri, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1964.
Ghareeb, Edmund, The Kurdish Question in Iraq, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1981.
Goodman,Martin, State and Society in Roman GalileeAD 132-212, Rowman and Allanheld, 1983.
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Gunter, Michael M., The Kurds of Iraq: Tragedy and Hope, NYC, St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Haj, Samira, The Making of Iraq 1900-1963: Capital, Power, and Ideology, NYC, State Univ of New York Pr, 1997, ISBN: 0-791-43242-4, Buy/Reviews.
Hamza, Khidir, Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon, NYC, Touchstone Books, 2001, ISBN: 0-743211359, Buy/Reviews.
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Hazelton, Fran (ed.), Iraq since the Gulf War: prospects for democracy, London, Zed Books, 1994, ISBN: 1-85649-232-X, Buy/Reviews.
Helms, Christine Moss, Iraq, Eastern Flank of the Arab World, DC, Brookings Institution, 1984.
Hiro, Dilip, The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict, NYC, Routledge, 1991, ISBN: 0-415-90407-2,Buy/Reviews.
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Hussein, Fuad Mohammad, The legal concept of self-determination and the Kurdish question, Amsterdam, Luna, 1985.
Ireland, Philip, Iraq: A Study in Political Development, NYC, Macmillan, 1938.
Izady Mehrdad R., The Kurds, Washington, DC, Taylor&Francis, 1992.
Jalal, Ferhang, The Role of Government in the Industrialization of Iraq 1950-65, London, Frank Cass, 1972.
Jawad, Saad, Iraq and the Kurdish Question 1958-1970, London, Ithaca Press, 1981.
Karsh, Efraim and Inari Rautsi, Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography, NYC, Grove, 2003, ISBN: 0-802-13978-7,Buy/Reviews.
Kasaba, Resat and Sibel Bozdogan (ed.), Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997.
Kelidar, Abbas, The Integration of Modern Iraq, NYC, St. Martin's Press, 1979.
Kemp, Percy, Territoires d'Islam: Le monde vu de Mossoul au xvii siecle, Paris, Sindbad, 1982.
Khadduri, Majid, Independent Iraq 1932-1958, London, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Khadduri, Majid, Republican Iraq, London, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Khadduri, Majid, Socialist Iraq: A Study in Iraqi Politics since 1968, DC, Middle East Institute, 1978.
Khadduri, Majid, The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict, NYC, Oxford, 1988.
Khadduri, Majid and Edmund Ghareeb, War in the Gulf 1990-1991, NYC, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Kirisci, K. and Winrow, G.W, The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-State Ethnic Conflict, London, Frank Cass, 1997.
Kramer, Samuel Noah, Cradle of Civilization, NYC, Little Brown & Company, 1969, ISBN: 0-316326178, Buy/Reviews.
Kreyenbroek, Philip G. and Allison C., Kurdish Culture and Identity, London, Zed Books, 1996.
Kreyenbroek, Philip G. and Sperl Stefan (ed.), The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview, London/New York, Routledge, 1992.
Kristol, William and Lawrence F. Kaplan, The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission, NYC, Encounter Books, 2003, ISBN: 1893554694, Buy/Reviews.
Laizer, Sheri, Martyrs, Traitors and Patriots, London, Zed Books, 1996.
Lamsa, George M. and William Chauncey Emhardt, The Oldest Christian People, NYC, AMS, 1970, **ISBN:**0-404-02339-8, Buy/Reviews.
Langley, Kathleen M., The Industrialization of Iraq (Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series, V, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1967.
Layard, Henry Austin, Ninveh And Its Remains, Westport, CT, Praeger, 1970.
Longrigg, Stephen, Iraq 1900 to 1950, London, Oxford University Press, 1953.
Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley, Four Centuries of Modern Iraq, London, Oxford University Press, 1925.
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Lytle, Elizabeth Edith, A bibliography of the Kurds, Kurdistan, and the Kurdish question, Monticello, Ill, Council of Planning Librarians, 1977.
Mackey, Sandra, The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, NYC, W.W. Norton and Co, 2002, ISBN: 0-393-05141-2,Buy/Reviews.
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Malek, Yusuf, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians, Chicago, Assyrian National Federation and Assyrian National League of America, 1935.
Marr, Phebe, The Modern History of Iraq, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1985.
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Morony, M.G., Iraq after the Muslim Conquest, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1984.
Nakidmon, Shlomo, First Strike: The Exclusive Story of How Israel Foiled Iraq's Attempt To Get The Bomb, NYC, Summit, 1990.
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Ritter, Scott, Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis, NYC, Simon and Schuster, 2002, ISBN: 0-743247728, Buy/Reviews.
Rogers, Will and Sharon Rogers, Storm Center: The USS Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655, Annapolis,MD, Naval Institute Press, 1992.
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Sabar, Yona, The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982.
Sawadayee, Max., All Waiting to be Hanged, Tel Aviv, Levanda Press, 1974.
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