MER Article Marr, The Modern History of Iraq Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985). Phebe Marr’s The Modern History of Iraq spans the period from the inception of the modern nation-state in 1920 to 1984. Marr has consulted, among others, the authoritative works in Arabic of the Iraqi chronicler ‘Abd al Abdul-Salaam Yousif • 2 min read
