Banking on Baghdad Inside Iraq's 7,000-year History of War, Profit, And Conflict

Praise for Edwin Black's Banking on Baghdad"[Banking on Baghdad is] Edwin Black's powerful new study of Iraq's place in the world . . . his taut description of the atrocities visited upon the region's Moslems, first by each other, and later, Genghis Kahn's Mongols, is vivid and chilling." -The Miami Herald"Edwin Black makes a determined effort to elucidate why Iraq has been a center of commerce and turmoil for thousands of years. Even before industrialized society became dependent on its black gold, he writes, the area was 'the intersection of intellectual and commercial exchange' and a target for invaders. Black looks at everything from the 13th-century Mongol invasion to today's war profiteering in this ambitious volume." -The Boston Herald"As investigative reporter Edwin Black chronicles in Banking on Baghdad, Mesopotamia-the land known as the 'cradle of civilization'-has had one of the world's most unstable, troubled, and bloody histories. This book could just as well have been called A Short History of Iraq. . . . In the span of 400-odd pages, Black covers remarkably thoroughly the minutiae of thousands of years of geographical, political, and religious history." -The Montreal GazetteBlack, Edwin is the author of 'Banking on Baghdad Inside Iraq's 7,000-year History of War, Profit, And Conflict', published 2006 under ISBN 9780471773498 and ISBN 0471773492.