TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jabar,Faleh A.
AU  - Dawod,Hosham
TI  - The Kurds: nationalism and politics 
SN  - 9780863568251 (hardback)
AV  - DS59.K86 K865 2006
U1  - 956.00491597 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Saqi
KW  - Kurds
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-337) and index; Foreword; Ethnicity, nationalism and the unitary state in the Middle East : the case of the Kurds; Faleh A. Jabar and Hosham Dawod --; Part one : Defining Kurdish nationalism --; Can we write a modernist history of Kurdish nationalism?; Fred Halliday --; Kurdish paths to nation /; Martin van Bruinessen --; The Kurds and their 'others' : fragmented identity and fragmented politics; Abbas Vali --; Ethnicity and power : some reflections on ethnic definitions and boundaries; Hosham Dawod --; Part two : Society, language, culture and history --; Religion and ethnicity as politicized  boundaries; Sami Zubaida --; Refinement and oppression of Kurdish language; Joyce Blau --; Tying down the territory : conceptions and misconceptions of early Kurdish history; Maria O'Shea --; Tribal Asabiyya and Kurdish politics : a socio-historical perspective; Hamit Bozarslan --; Part three : Kurds in Iraq --; Urbanization, privatization, and patronage : the political economy of Iraqi Kurdistan; Michael Leezenberg --; Fayli Kurds of Baghdad and the Ba'ath regime; Saad B. Eskander --; Political Islam among the Kurds; Michael Leezenberg  --; Part four : Post-conflict Iraq --; Federalism and the Kurds of Iraq : the solution or the problem?; Michael M. Gunter --; Finding a dangerous equilibrium : internal politics in Iraqi Kurdistan - parties, tribes, religion and ethnicity reconsidered; Gareth Stansfield --; Arab nationalism versus Kurdish nationalism : reflections on structural parallels and discontinuities; Faleh A. Jabar
ER  -