Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century

Were they simply bystanders, victims of collateral damage who played a passive role in its history? Furthermore, how have they negotiated their position throughout various periods of Iraq's state-building processes? This book details a narrative of Iraq in the twentieth century and refashions the Assyrian experience as an integral part of Iraq's broader contemporary historiography. It is the first comprehensive account to contextualize a native experience alongside the emerging state. Using primary and secondary data, this book offers a nuanced exploration of the dynamics that have affected and determined the trajectory of the Assyrians' experience in twentieth-century Iraq.

Author: Sargon Donabed
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/27/2015
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780748686025
ISBN10: 0748686029
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | History
- History | Middle East | Iraq
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General

About the Author

Sargon George Donabed is Assistant Professor of History at the Department of History and American Studies at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. He is co-editor of The Assyrian Heritage: Threads of Continuity and Influence (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2012), Religion and the State: Europe and North America in the 17th and 18th centuries (Lexington Books, 2012) and The Assyrians of Eastern Massachusetts (Arcadia Publishing, 2006).