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Banking on Baghdad : inside Iraq's 7,000-year history of war, profit and conflict / Edwin Black

Author
Black, Edwin
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
xxi, 471 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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Contents
From cradle to crossroads -- Have a nice day -- The cradle of commerce -- Robbing the cradle -- The three Ottoman provinces -- The sick man -- Fumes -- Oil -- The race to monopolize -- Mr. Five Percent -- Fuel and fuse -- War and petropolitics -- Invasion -- The proclamation -- Chaos and conquest -- The undeclared country -- Jihad against Britain -- The red line -- The continuing conflict -- The Nazi intersection -- The price of prejudice -- The three gulfs.
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ISBN
047167186X (cloth)
Note
Map on lining papers.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450) and index.
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