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Edwin Black
``Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict''
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Review by Rosemary Herbert
Sunday, October 17, 2004
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 Mogul invasion in the 13th century to today's war
profiteering in this ambitious volume.
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