عنوان

Aliens in Uniforms and Contested Nationalisms: The Role of the Iraq Levies In Shaping Aspects of Iraqi Nationalism Under the British Mandate of Iraq

شماره

TL49879

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Aliens in Uniforms and Contested Nationalisms: The Role of the Iraq Levies In Shaping Aspects of Iraqi Nationalism Under the British Mandate of Iraq

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Sopanit  Angsusingha

نام ساير پديدآوران

Tucker, Judith

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Georgetown University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018

نام خاص و کميت اثر

204

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Sassoon, Joseph

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-87527-0

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

M.A.

نظم درجات

Arab Studies

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Georgetown University

امتياز متن

2018

متن يادداشت

The Iraq Levies were formed by the British authorities to secure imperial order and maintain stability in the British Mandate of Iraq (1921-1932). The social composition of the Iraq Levies which consisted mainly of Assyrian recruits and its association with the British not only generated competition with the Iraqi army, but also instigated communal tension between the Assyrians and the rest of the Iraqi population. Based on archival research, this study examines the recruitment and operations of the Iraq Levies in order to understand how they led to the Assyrian massacre in 1933 and shaped Iraqi nationalism as militant and exclusionary. The main research questions are: How did British colonial policy and the Iraq Levies alienate the Assyrians from the rest of the Iraqi population? How did the deployment of the Iraq Levies cause communal conflicts with other ethnic communities in Iraq? And how did the Iraq Levies promote an exclusive definition of Iraqi nationalism that led to the massacre of the Assyrians in 1933? I argue that British use of the Iraq Levies as a tool of "divide and rule" in Iraq shaped the role of the Iraq Levies in producing the Assyrian as "other," causing communal conflicts and shaping aspects of Iraqi nationalism in the following ways. First, the "martial race theory" used to form an Assyrian Levy force made the Assyrians appear as alien in Iraqi society. Secondly, the class regimental system that deployed the Assyrian forces against Kurdish rebellions generated inter-communal conflicts and generated suspicion of the Assyrian community. Thirdly, a symbiotic relationship between the British and the Assyrians, through the Iraq Levies, promoted the Assyrian nationalist movement that challenged the integrity of the Iraqi state. Consequently, the Iraq Levies aroused anger and hatred of the Iraqi state toward the Assyrians, and resulted in the 1933 Assyrian massacre by the Iraqi army that shaped Iraqi nationalism as exclusive, militaristic and anti-minority.

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern Studies; Military history

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Assyrians;British mandate of iraq;Iraq levies;Iraqi nationalism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Smith, Ruth Marie

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Tucker, Judith

تقسيم فرعي

Arab Studies

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Georgetown University

شماره بازیابی

2038970017; 10790637

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y