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The end of Saddam Hussein Iraq traces the destruction of a strongly secular state that had once been a bulwark against religious fundamentalism and had promised to become a catalyst in the transformation of the middle east from tradition to modernity., It traces the origins of the tragedy back to the sixties when Iraq, by virtue of its oil, first became a pawn in the Cold War, and carries the story forward through the first and second gulf wars and the long ...
This groundbreaking book offers an in-depth historical perspective on the rise of capitalism, written by one of the leading scholars of the Global South. Arguing that globalisation is generally poorly understood, Jha offers a new synthesis of political and economic theory that sheds light on the consequences of rapid industrialisation worldwide. Writing from outside the usual Western perspective, the book challenges many of the usual preconceptions about the ...