The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq : A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of Its Communists, Ba'thists and Free Officers
ISBN: 9780863567711
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Saqi Books
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Subjects: Political Science;

This comparative study analyses the traditional elite of Iraq and their successors - the Communists, the Ba'thists and Free Officers - in terms of social and economic relationships in each area of the country. The author draws on secret government documents and interviews with key figures, both in power and in prison, to produce an engrossing story of political struggle and change.

Hanna Batatu was born in 1926 in Jerusalem. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, receiving his PhD from Havard University in 1960. Apart from research fellowships at Havard, MIT and Princeton, Batatu held two major teaching appointments: at the American University of Beirut (1962-1981), and at Georgetown University (1982-1994), where he was named professor Emeritus upon retirement. He died in 2000.

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