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City of Black Gold : Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk by Bet-Shlimon, Arbella; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population. It was also where, in 1927, a foreign company first struck oil in Iraq. Over the following decades, Kirkuk became the heart of Iraq's booming petroleum industry. City of Black Gold tells a story of oil, urbanization, and colonialism in Kirkuk--and how these factors shaped the identities of Kirkuk's citizens, forming the foundation of an ethnic conflict. Arbella Bet-Shlimon reconstructs the twentieth-century hist
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- Author
- Bet-Shlimon, Arbella;
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781503609136
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Middle Eastern History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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