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The Cambridge History of the Kurds

Veli Yadirgi editor Hamit Bozarslan editor Cengiz Gunes editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Apr '21

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A comprehensive survey of the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution of the Kurds from 1400 to the present.

Offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

ISBN: 9781108473354

Dimensions: 235mm x 159mm x 50mm

Weight: 1640g

964 pages