Iraq: From Sumer to Post-Saddam

by Geoff L. Simons

Book Overview

Newly reissued and updated to engage with Iraq's current, central role in world affairs, Geoff Simons' seminal book presents a broad history of Iraq, from the earliest times to the emergence of modern Iraq in the Twentieth-century, the power struggles that led to the rise of Saddam Hussein, the Iran-Iraq war, the 1990-91 Gulf war, and the continuing depiction of Iraq as a 'rogue' nation. Such crucial factors as the West's historical influence in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403917701
• ISBN13: 9781403917706
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Iraq: From Sumer to Post-Saddam

Excellent book for a concise and sufficiently detailed overview of Iraqi and related regional politics. I had read this book a few times before as a first edition, and although the post-Saddam period was of less interest to me (I'm writing a book related to the 1960's to 1980's period), it is still an excellent book to pick up again - informative and very readable (not too dense and academic). The author is clearly no fan of the colonial or imperial powers that manipulated Iraq (as it became)and the region over many decades. However, the book is balanced and by no means a polemic tirade against those powers. Worth having on the shelf.