Essays about: "Rebecca Irvine"

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  1. 1. Anticolonial Resistance in the Post-Ottoman Mashriq: Examining the Iraqi Jazirah

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Rebecca Irvine; [2018]
    Keywords : Iraq; 1920; revolution; frontier; Jazirah; anticolonialism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The anticolonial uprising in 1920 against the British occupation of the provinces of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra marked an unprecedented escalation in resistance and opposition to the colonial forces. While most narratives of this uprising focus on the more significant events across the lower and middle Euphrates, earlier, unsuccessful episodes of anticolonial resistance also emerged in the Jazirah region of north-west Iraq. READ MORE