Leading scholars consider Iraq's history and strategic importance from the vantage point of its residents, neighbors (Iran, Turkey, and Kurdistan), and the Great Powers.
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Here is a well-executed collective effort to present...the Iraqi-British story...A succinct yet comprehensive account of this period.
(L. Carl Brown Foreign Affairs )"A concise and multifaceted overview of the circumstances that led to the creation of modern Iraq out of the ruins of the Ottoman empire." -Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions
(Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions )About the Author
Reeva Spector Simon is a research scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and coeditor of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. She is also author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny (Columbia). Eleanor H. Tejirian is an associate research scholar at the Middle East Institute. She is coeditor (with Simon) of Altruism and Imperialism: Western Religious and Cultural Missions in the Middle East.
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In 1914, when Britain's Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force entered Basra, Iraq did not exist as a state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tribal sheikhs, shrine cities, civil commissioner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ottoman Empire, Middle East, League of Nations, New York, Persian Gulf, Foreign Office, India Office, Fourteen Points, Gertrude Bell, Near East Relief, Paris Peace Conference, Standard Oil, Sunni Arab, Mustafa Kemal, Soviet Union, Lloyd George, Middle Euphrates, Reza Shah, Turkish Petroleum Company, Admiral Chester, Arnold Wilson, Department of State, Lord Kitchener, Sharif Husayn, State Department New!
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In 1914, when Britain's Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force entered Basra, Iraq did not exist as a state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tribal sheikhs, shrine cities, civil commissioner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ottoman Empire, Middle East, League of Nations, New York, Persian Gulf, Foreign Office, India Office, Fourteen Points, Gertrude Bell, Near East Relief, Paris Peace Conference, Standard Oil, Sunni Arab, Mustafa Kemal, Soviet Union, Lloyd George, Middle Euphrates, Reza Shah, Turkish Petroleum Company, Admiral Chester, Arnold Wilson, Department of State, Lord Kitchener, Sharif Husayn, State Department New!
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- Middle East by Stephen H. Longrigg on 4 pages
- The Middle East and North Africa (Regional Studies Ser) by Reeva S. Simon on page 48, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Middle East: Geography and Geopolitics by Ewan Anderson in Front Matter, page 48, and Back Matter
- A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin on page 145, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Origins of Arab Nationalism by Rashid Khalidi on page 47, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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