{"publishers": ["State University of New York Press"], "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["2536641"], "librarything": ["4273897"]}, "subtitle": "Like Bees Making 5-Sided Cells (S U N Y Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)", "weight": "14.9 ounces", "isbn_10": ["0791444880"], "covers": [1491812], "physical_format": "Paperback", "lc_classifications": ["DS79.9.M6 S54 2000", "DS79.9.M6S54 2000"], "key": "/books/OL7802257M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL2782164A"}], "isbn_13": ["9780791444887"], "source_records": ["marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part01.utf8:9019850:1039", "bwb:9780791444887", "marc:marc_nuls/NULS_PHC_180925.mrc:3622154:2647", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-006.mrc:125382296:2995", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_031.bib.mrc:223989576:3518"], "title": "Mosul Before Iraq", "lccn": ["00022855"], "number_of_pages": 278, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Asian / Middle Eastern history", "Middle East - General", "History & Theory - General", "Political Science", "History - General History", "History: World", "Middle East", "Mosul (Iraq)", "History", "19th century", "Economic integration", "Politics and government"], "publish_date": "April 2000", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL8358436W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "local_id": ["urn:nuls:31786101522065"], "oclc_numbers": ["43403494"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Drawing upon original sources documents, Mosul before Iraq paints a portrait of the region during the turbulent nineteenth century. What emerges is a picture of citizens less focused on Europe or Istanbul and more on centuries-old relationships among its economic and social spheres. By arguing that the region belongs to a broader geographic, economic, and political space which crosses current national borders, the book explains the continuing conflict over the status of Mosul.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-29T15:03:11.581851"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-20T22:38:28.341075"}}