Banking on Baghdad
Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict
(Sprache: Englisch)
Big business and global warfare have long been fiery and symbiotic forces in Iraq. Banking on Baghdad tells the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce-and documents the many ways Iraq's recent history mirrors its tumultuous...
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Big business and global warfare have long been fiery and symbiotic forces in Iraq. Banking on Baghdad tells the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce-and documents the many ways Iraq's recent history mirrors its tumultuous past. Tracing the involvement of Western governments and militaries, as well as oil, banking, and other corporate interests in Iraq, Black shows that today, just as yesterday, the world needs Iraq's resources-and is always willing to fight and invade in order to acquire and protect them.While demonstrating that Iraq itself is partially to blame for its current state of turmoil, Black does not shy away from the uncomfortable truth that war and profit have also played an equal part in creating the Iraq we know today. Just as he did in IBM and the Holocaust, Black exposes the hidden associations between leading corporations, war, and oil-such as the astonishing connections between Nazi Germany, Iraq, and the Holocaust.
He exposes the war and race-based profiteering by some of the world's most prestigious corporations, as well as the political and economic ties between the Bush administration and the companies that gain handsomely from its foreign policy. Just as he did in War Against the Weak, Black offers a compelling blend of history and contemporary investigative journalism that spans a century and eschews easy answers for complicated questions.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION
NOTES ON USAGE
PART ONE: From Cradle to Crossroads
Chapter 1: Have a Nice Day
Chapter 2: The Cradle of Commerce
Chapter 3: Robbing the Cradle
Chapter 4: The Three Ottoman Provinces
Chapter 5: The Sick Man
PART TWO: Fumes
Chapter 6: Oil
Chapter 7: The Race to Monopolize
Chapter 8: Mr. Five Percent
Chapter 9: Fuel and Fuse
PART THREE: War and Petropolitics
Chapter 10: Invasion
Chapter 11: The Proclamation
Chapter 12: Chaos and Conquest
Chapter 13: The Undeclared Country
Chapter 14: Jihad against Britain
Chapter 15: The Red Line
PART FOUR: The Continuing Conflict
Chapter 16: The Nazi Intersection
Chapter 17: The Price of Prejudice
Chapter 18: The Three Gulfs
NOTES
MAJOR SOURCES
INDEX
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edwin Black
- 2004, 400 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 047167186X
- ISBN-13: 9780471671862
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Black's work should not be taken to the bank. While purporting to be a 7000-year history of Iraq with related economic implications, it ends up being a work of invective and innuendo, sloppy history, and hyperventilating prose regarding the West's relationship to Iraqi oil over the past 100 years. For example, Black has Britain's King Edward VII signing an oil treaty in 1914, four years after his death. Or he mistakenly devalues the military significance of Lawrence of Arabia in Allenby's campaign to practically nothing when, indeed, Lawrence was first into Damascus. However, Black's pejorative and high-energy language and lack of thoughtful interpretation will make this study highly entertaining reading for less thoughtful readers. Black is an investigative reporter with three similar works (e.g., War Against the Weak) and a novel to his credit. On the history of the Middle East, however, the discerning reader will be better off with the studies of Bernard Lewis or Albert Hourani. Recommended only for public and academic libraries collecting extensively in this area." --John F. Riddick, Central Michigan Univ. Lib., Mt. Pleasant (Library Journal, November 1, 2004)"...Black succeeds admirably in covering 7,000 years of history..." (Lloyds List International, 26 November 2004)
"In emphasizing the symbiosis of oil profits and Western imperialism in the making of modern Iraq, Black (IBM and the Holocaust) and a team of 30 researchers (whom he credits) have unearthed a wealth of historical detail, but not a satisfying framework for it. Temporal balance is also missing: the book's first 6,500 years pass in a 42-page montage of conquest and massacre, with the narrative slowing to a snail's pace during the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods to explore the interminable wranglings among Western oil companies, European governments and entrepreneur C.S. Gulbenkian over Iraqi oil concessions in the first half of the 20th century. Accounts of the Sunni-Shiite schism
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and the modern recrudescence of Iraqi anti-Semitism are thrown into the mix, but one gets little sense of how all these elements determine the social, economic and political turmoil of contemporary Iraq, especially since the crucial Saddam era flits by in just six disjointed pages. In the end, Black does little more with a lot of undeniably fascinating material than to invoke the 'unstoppable repetition' of despotic government and violent exploitation, but his corporate-historical gleanings are more than enough to carry the book." Agent, Lynne Rabinoff. (Oct. 12)
"FORECAST: With a first printing of 75,000, a promo budget of $100,000 and a 40 (!)-city author tour, look for this book to make large inroads among the Iraq-curious--a potential market of most U.S. residents." (Publishers Weekly, October 4, 2004)
"FORECAST: With a first printing of 75,000, a promo budget of $100,000 and a 40 (!)-city author tour, look for this book to make large inroads among the Iraq-curious--a potential market of most U.S. residents." (Publishers Weekly, October 4, 2004)
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