Land between the rivers : a 5000-year history of Iraq

Bull, Bartle2025

Books, Manuscripts

Find it!
Remove Land between the rivers : a 5000-year history of Iraq from your current list Save Land between the rivers : a 5000-year history of Iraq to your current list

Total copies: 1

Available: 0

Availability by location

Place reservation

Summary

'Land Between the Rivers' is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. We begin the story with ancient Sumer, and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk ('Iraq') to make a great name for himself around the turn of the third millennium BC. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small royal palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free, and promising capital in the Middle East. Above all, the story of Iraq, the world's hinge country, is that of the great clash pitting humanism against the outlooks of power and fate.