Research Guide for Iraq: selected resources

 

Prepared by Case Library/Reference Service,  2003

Finding  Books  · Overview Sources ˙News · Statistics · Atlases and Maps · Bibliographies · Indexes  Art  ·  Biographical Dictionaries ·  Economic Issues ·  Ethnic Groups and Nationalities ·  Foreign Policy · History · Human Rights ·  Law · Literature · Military · Politics and Government · Religion · Women · Web Resources

Highlighted Issue

Iraq and the United States (Colgate University Case Library)

A resource page dealing with the current crisis regarding Iraq.

 

The Price of Loyalty The Bush Files

"These documents are drawn from a collection of 19,000 files of Paul H. O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary for the first two years of the Presidency of George W. Bush. Like all Treasury Secretaries, O'Neill was the top domestic appointment of the President and also a principal of the National Security Council. The files, which range from memoranda to the President to handwritten notes to "sensitive" internal reports, cover a sweeping array of foreign and domestic issues. They also display the attending political and personal matters that often determine policy. They were collected as part of a Treasury Department archiving process in which every item that crossed O'Neill's desk, from every department in government, was copied into a TIF, or image, file. Documents cited in the "The Price of Loyalty" are presented with explanations of context and little comment."

 

Iraq - the cradle of  civilization at risk. (H - Museum current focus)

Sites of cultural and historical importance and the impact of war.

 

War with Iraq : costs, consequences, and alternatives / Carl Kaysen . [et al.] Cambridge, MA : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Committee
on International Security Studies, c2002.

 

Overview sources

Countries & Their Cultures
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.
CASE Ref. GN307 .C68 2001 vol. 1-4  (see vol. 2 for Iraq) also ONLINE

Encyclopedia of modern Asia  Online. Colgate Network  2004 ed

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (online) 2004 ed
- revision of Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East / edited by Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c1996.
CASE Ref. DS43 .E53 1996 vol. 1-4

Iraq, a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; 4th ed.
Washington, D.C. : Headquarters, Department of the Army : U.S. G.P.O., 1989.
LASR Main DS 70.6.I734 1990
Also available online from the Library of Congress (Online)

The world factbook.
Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency : Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1981-
CASE Ref. G123 .W67 2004 (LASR Main older vols.)
Also available online, click here.

Iraq - section within the Europa World Plus
also available as an older edition in print
The Middle East and North Africa. London, Europa Publications.
(Older vols. LASR Main DS49 .M5 2002)

Background Note: Iraq (U.S. Department of State)

 

Finding more books:

Selected new books in our libraries

Connect to the New Acquisitions page and use the browser "find in page" function in the "Edit" menu to search the list for keyword such as Iraq or Iraqi.

 

Search online catalog (the Libraries' online Catalog) using these selected exact subject headings

Iraq	Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Iraq - Economic conditions	Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990 1991
Iraq -Ethnic relations	Persian Gulf War, 1991
Iraq -- Foreign relations	Iraq War, 2003
Iraq - History
Iraq - Human rights	United Nations -- Iraq
Iraq -Kurds	Economic Sanctions -Iraq
Iraq - military policy	Disarmament -- On-site inspection -- Iraq
Iraq- Politics and government
Iraq - Nuclear arms control	United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq
Iraq - Nuclear weapons	United States -- Foreign relations -- Arab countries
Nuclear disarmament -- Iraq	Arab countries -- Foreign relations -- United States
Weapons of mass destruction -- Iraq

 

Searching for resources in other libraries

Connect NY
This is a union catalog of several upstate NY academic libraries (2  day delivery)
Worldcat
This is a union catalog combining the holdings of thousands of libraries (7-10 day delivery)

 

News 

Access World News - International Edition [Colgate University only]

From homepage: "News articles covering politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English."

Arab.net

Designed to serve as a clearinghouse of information about the Arab world, ArabNet is a valuable source of current news coverage, along with providing country profiles of almost every nation in the Middle East.

 

Lexis/Nexis  (Colgate community only)

Choose the news category "World News" and the news source "Middle East Africa Sources" to search a full-text database of newspapers, magazines and news services from around the world (including the US and the Middle East).

 

Mideast Mirror  (Colgate community only)

A searchable full-text database from Lexis Nexis.  From database description: "MIDEAST MIRROR is a daily digest (Monday through Friday) of news and editorial comment in the Arab, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew media, compiled by correspondents stationed in 11 countries and delivered to subscribers on same day of publication."

 

Al Jazeera

Arabic News

CNN

Iraqi news Agency

Jerusalem Post

Middle East Times

New York Times

The Times (London)

Washington Post
News sources from Yahoo

World press encyclopedia : a survey of press systems worldwide
Gale.  Colgate Network  PN4728.Z53
 

See also additional general news sources at:

Online News Databases and News Sources

 

Atlases and Maps

GiziMap (Firm). Iraq [cartographic material] = Irak = Irak, 1:1,750,000. [Budapest] : GiziMap, 2002. NOTE Relief shown by gradient tints and spot heights. Includes index in left margin, inset archeological sites index, and col. photo of Gyorgy Buda on panel.
CASE Maps G7611.E15 2002 .G5 In drawer labeled "Southwest Asia".

Atlas of the Middle East / Central Intelligence Agency. [Washington, D.C.?] : The Agency ; Springfield, VA : National Technical Information Service ; Washington, DC :  1993. CASE Atlases G2205 .A87 1993

Atlas of the Arab world and the Middle East. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1960. CASE Atlases G1785 .D5 1960a 

Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500. New York, N.Y. : Facts On File, [c1982]
CASE Ref. DS35.6 .R6 1982

Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection (Online resource) Iraq 

 

Bibliographies

Iraq. Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1984.
CASE Ref. DS70.6 .A653 1984

Iraq. 2nd ed. Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1995.
CASE Ref. DS70.6 .B54 1995

Iraq: a bibliographical guide / compiled by C.H. Bleaney.
CASE Ref DS79.65 I7235 2004
 

The Iraq-Iran war : a bibliography. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1989, c1988.
CASE Ref. DS318.85 .G37 1989

 

Indexes and abstracts

The indexes below are particularly focused on areas relating to Iraq. Many other indexes available on this page also cover relevant material.  Chose the focus of your research from the subject guide and explore the possibilities.  Indexes in the Multidisciplinary/General category will work for many subject searches.

Index Islamicus (East Grinstead, England). Library has 1993-
LASR Ref BP161.2 .I64

Index Islamicus (London, England : 1983)
LASR Ref BP161.2 .L62 1981-85 vol. 1-2

Index Islamicus, 1665-1905 : a bibliography of articles on Islamic subjects in periodicals and other collective publications.  Millersville, Pa.  Adiyok, c1989.
LASR Ref BP161.2 .L62 1665- 1905

Index Islamicus, 1906-1955 : a catalogue of articles on Islamic subjects in periodicals and other collective publications.  Cambridge, England : W. Heffer, 1958. LASR Ref BP161.2 .L62 1906-55

Index Islamicus. Supplement. Cumulation of an annual volume, 1971-
LASR Ref BP161.2 L62 1971-75 
LASR Ref BP161.2 L62 1961-65 

 

Art

The Grove dictionary of art  online  Colgate Network N31 .D5 1996

 

Biographical Dictionaries

Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis : Central Asia and Middle East.
New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2002.
CASE Ref. BP189.4 .B562 2002

 

Economic issues

The Children are dying : the impact of sanctions on Iraq / reports by UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Ramsey Clark, world leaders. New York : World View Forum, 1996.
LASR Main HD9016.I732 C48 1996

The economy of Iraq : oil, wars, destruction of development and
prospects, 1950-2010 / Abbas Alnasrawi.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
LASR Main HD9576.I72 A647 1994

Iraq under siege : the deadly impact of sanctions and war /
edited by Anthony Arnove ; with essays by Ali Abunimah ... [et al.]
Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2000.
LASR Main HF1586.3 .I73 2000

 

Education

World education encyclopedia : a survey of educational systems worldwide   : Gale Group Colgate Network LB15 .W87 2001

Ethnic Groups and Nationalities

See also  Countries and their Cultures

Ethnic groups worldwide : a ready reference handbook.
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1998.
CASE Ref. GN325 .L46 1998

The cultural atlas of Islam.  New York : Macmillan, c1986.
CASE Ref. DS36.85 .A39 1986

Muslim peoples : a world ethnographic survey
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
CASE Ref. DS35.625.A1 M87 1984 vol. 1-2

 

Foreign Policy

Iraq and the United States (Colgate University Case Library)

A resource page dealing with the current crisis regarding Iraq.

 

Chomsky, Noam. Acts of aggression : policing "rogue states" / Noam Chomsky, with Edward Said. New York : Seven Stories ; London : Turnaround, 1999.

LASR Main E183.8.I57 C48 1999

 

Sanctioning Saddam : the politics of intervention in Iraq. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris  1999. LASR Main DS79.75 .G734 1999

Why another war? : a backgrounder on the Iraq crisis.  Washington, DC : Middle East Research & Information Project, 2002. LASR Main DS79.75 .G72 2002.

Guiding principles for U.S. post-conflict policy in Iraq : report of an independent working group cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University. [New York, N.Y.?] : The Council, [2003]. LASR Main DS63.2.U5 G8 2003

 Iraq : in the eye of the storm. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; Nation Books, c2002. LASR Main DS79.75 .H58 2002

How to build a new Iraq after Saddam / Patrick Clawson, editor. Washington, DC : Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2002. LASR Main E902 .H69 2002
 

The United Nations and Iraq : defanging the viper. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003. LASR Main UG447 .K664 2003

The reckoning : Iraq and the legacy of Saddam Hussein. New York : Norton, c2002. LASR Main DS79.65 .M24 2002

The threatening storm : the case for invading Iraq. New York : Random House, c2002. LASR Main DS79.75 .P65 2002.

Treaties and Agreements Library (Hein online)
*See reference librarian for search help

 

History

Gods, demons and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia : an illustrated dictionary / Jeremy Black and Anthony Green  Published in co-operation with British Museum Press, University of Texas Press, c1992.
CASE Ref. BL1615 .B53 1992

Out of the ashes : the resurrection of Saddam Hussein.  New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, c1999.
Lasr Main DS79.75 .C63 1999

Historical dictionary of Iraq / Edmund A. Ghareeb. 
CASE Ref DS70.9 G43 2004

Sumer and the Sumerians. [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. LASR Main DS72 .C73 1991

The legacy of Mesopotamia.  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. LASR Main DS56 .D33 1998

A history of Iraq. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002. LASR Main DS79 .T75 2002 .

 

Human Rights

Amnesty International Report 2005

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices  - 2004 (U. S. State Department) Iraq

 

Law

Legal systems of the world : a political, social, and cultural encyclopedia / Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002. CASE Ref. K48 .L44 2002 vol. 2 E-L

Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress) (Online). Iraq

 

Literature

Takarli, Fuad. The long way back; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, c2001. Translation of: al-Raj al-baid.
LASR Main PJ7864.A3744 R3513 2001

 

 Military

Iran and Iraq : the threat from the northern Gulf. Westview Press, 1994.
LASR Main UA853.I75 C67 1994

Iraq and the war of sanctions : conventional threats and weapons
of mass destruction. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999. LASR Main UA853.I75 C65 1999

Disarming Iraq : monitoring power and resistance. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001. LASR Main JZ1682 .D43 2001

Chemical-biological defense : U.S. Military policies and decisions in the Gulf War. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c1999. LASR Main UA23 .M323 1999

Iraq between the two world wars : the creation and implementation of a nationalist ideology. New York : Columbia University Press, 1986. LASR Main DS79 .S57 1986

 

Music

New Grove dictionary of music and musicians (Online)

The Garland encyclopedia of world music.  Garland Pub., 1998-
LASR Main ML100 .G16 1998 vol. 6 
LASR Music ML100 .G16 1998 vol. 6 Disc

 

Politics and Government

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (U.S. CIA). Iraq

Handbook of political science research on the Middle East and North Africa / Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998. CASE Ref. JQ1758.A58 H36 1998 

Elections in Asia and the Pacific : a data handbook. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. CASE Ref. JQ38 .E44 2001 vol. 1 

Building democracy in Iraq.  London : MRG International, 2003.
LASR Main JQ1849.A95 G43

Profiles in Terror : the guide to Middle East terrorist organizations / Aaron Mannes
CASE Ref. HV6433.M5 M35  2004

The Saddam Hussein reader : [selections from leading writers on Iraq] / edited by Turi Munthe. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : c2002.  LASR Main DS79.7 .S196 2002

United States. President (2001- : Bush). Apparatus of lies [electronic resource] : Saddam's disinformation and propaganda, 1990-2003. [Washington, D.C.] : The White House, [2003].

 

Primary Sources

Treaties and Agreements Library (Hein online)
*See reference librarian for search help

 

Religion

Ayatollahs, sufis and ideologues : state, religion and social movements in Iraq / edited by Faleh Abdul-Jabar. London : Saqi, 2002. LASR Main BP173.7 .A935 2002

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (Online) 2004 ed

The encyclopaedia of Islam [CD-ROM ed.} Leiden : Brill, 1999-
Installed
Coverage of subjects A-S only.
CASE Network DS37 .E5232 1999 (Access in Case Library only.)

The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New ed.  Leiden, Brill, 1960-[i.e. 1954]-<1997- >
CASE Ref. DS37 .E523 vol. 1-12 

Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1987.
Reprint. Originally published: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1913-1938.
CASE Ref. DS35.53 .E53 1987 vol. 1 -9

Religions of the world : a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs
and practices. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
CASE Ref. BL80.3 .R45 2002 vol. 1-4

 

Statistics

World development indicators
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
CASE Ref. HC59.15 .W656 2005 or Online
older eds. in LASR Main

Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific / United Nations. Bangkok, Thailand : Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
CASE Ref. HA1665 .S73 2000
Library has:  1968-  (older volumes are at LASR Main HA 1667.S73)

International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000
 CASE Ref HA4675 .M552 1995

United Nations Statistics Division

 

Women

The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide. The
Middle East and North Africa / editor-in-chief, Lynn Walter ;
volume editor, Bahira Sherif-Trask. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
CASE Ref. HQ1726.5 .G74 2003

Women's rights : a global view.  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
CASE Ref. HQ1236 .W6527 2001 

The World's women, 2000 : trends and statistics.  New York : United Nations, 2000.
CASE Ref. HQ1154 .W675 2000 

 

Web Resources

ECAI Iraq
Digital resources about history, cultural sites, archaeological excavations and heritage preservation initiatives. Access is through interactive, time-enabled thematic maps

Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies (Columbia University). Iraq

Selected Internet Resources. Iraq.  Portals to the World (Library of Congress)