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City of black gold : oil, ethnicity, and the making of modern Kirkuk /

"Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population. It was also where, in 1927, a foreign company first struck oil in Iraq. Over the following decades, Kirkuk became the heart of Iraq's booming petroleum industry. City of Black Gold tells a story of o...

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Main Authors: Bet-Shlimon, Arbella (Author)
Published: Stanford University Press,
Publisher Address: Stanford, California :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Ethnicity > Political aspects > Iraq > Karkūk > History > 20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade > Iraq > Karkūk > History > 20th century.
Ethnic conflict > Iraq > Karkūk > History > 20th century.
Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Ethnicity > Political aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Politics and Government.
Karkūk (Iraq) > Ethnic relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Karkūk (Iraq) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Iraq > Karkūk.
Summary: "Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population. It was also where, in 1927, a foreign company first struck oil in Iraq. Over the following decades, Kirkuk became the heart of Iraq's booming petroleum industry. City of Black Gold tells a story of oil, urbanization, and colonialism in Kirkuk--and how these factors shaped the identities of Kirkuk's citizens, forming the foundation of an ethnic conflict. Arbella Bet-Shlimon reconstructs the twentieth-century history of Kirkuk to question the assumptions about the past underpinning today's ethnic divisions. In the early 1920s, when the Iraqi state was formed under British administration, group identities in Kirkuk were fluid. But as the oil industry fostered colonial power and Baghdad's influence over Kirkuk, intercommunal violence and competing claims to the city's history took hold. The ethnicities of Kurds, Turkmens, and Arabs in Kirkuk were formed throughout a century of urban development, interactions between communities, and political mobilization. Ultimately, this book shows how contentious politics in disputed areas are not primordial traits of those regions, but are a modern phenomenon tightly bound to the society and economics of urban life"--Publisher's website.
Carrier Form: xviii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-260) and index.
ISBN: 9781503608122
1503608123
Index Number: DS79
CLC: D737.762-09
Call Number: D737.762-09/B562

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