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Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) by Sara Pursley is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernization theorists, and postwar international agencies. <i>Familiar Futures</i> considers how such projects—from the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sara Pursley
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781503607491
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Economics, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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