This work is an account of Anglo-Iraqi relations from Britain's reconquest of Iraq in 1941 until the end of the immediate post-Second World War period in 1950. In particular, it shows how Britain reasserted its dominant position in Iraq during the war and attempted to maintain this position after the conflict when, under the pressure of nationalist sentiment in Iraq and manpower and financial constraints at home, and in accordance with its treaty obligations, it had withdrawn all of its ground troops. Thus, not only does this book describe an important episode in the fairly rapid disintegration of British hegemony in the Middle East after the war, it also examines the possibilities and limitations of indirect rule. Finally, it is the story of how the ruling class of a recently independent Arab nation struggled to free itself from the lingering grip of a major European power while still preserving sufficiently close ties with that power to ensure its external security and internal control.
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We have observed that the British moved into Iraq in May 1941 largely because they perceived a serious German threat to that country and the Middle East generally. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scarce currency countries, other scarce currencies, oriental counsellor, internal security purposes, overseas military expenditure, former enemy countries, sterling balances, first truce, sterling area, commercial counsellor, political resident, second truce, terrible inflation, assistant undersecretary, permanent undersecretary, bread shortage, million tons per year, reorganization scheme, free convertibility, arms contracts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Foreign Office, Middle East, United States, United Nations, Umm Qasr, Mulla Mustapha, Soviet Union, Second World War, Security Council, Treaty of Portsmouth, Khor Abdullah, Rashid Ali, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, War Office, Khor Zubair, India Office, National Democratic, Salih Jabr, Anglo-Ottoman Convention, Bernadotte Plan, First World War, Sunni Arab, Iraq Petroleum Company, Far East New!
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We have observed that the British moved into Iraq in May 1941 largely because they perceived a serious German threat to that country and the Middle East generally. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scarce currency countries, other scarce currencies, oriental counsellor, internal security purposes, overseas military expenditure, former enemy countries, sterling balances, first truce, sterling area, commercial counsellor, political resident, second truce, terrible inflation, assistant undersecretary, permanent undersecretary, bread shortage, million tons per year, reorganization scheme, free convertibility, arms contracts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Foreign Office, Middle East, United States, United Nations, Umm Qasr, Mulla Mustapha, Soviet Union, Second World War, Security Council, Treaty of Portsmouth, Khor Abdullah, Rashid Ali, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, War Office, Khor Zubair, India Office, National Democratic, Salih Jabr, Anglo-Ottoman Convention, Bernadotte Plan, First World War, Sunni Arab, Iraq Petroleum Company, Far East New!
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- Middle East by Stephen H. Longrigg on 6 pages
- Arab Contemporaries by Professor Majid Khadduri in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Middle East (Sociology of Development Societies) by Talal Asad in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Germans Come to the Help of Their Ally (1941) v. 2 (History of 2nd World War, U.K.Military History) by I.S.O. Playfair in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times by Norman A. Stillman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question (Studies in Middle Eastern History) by Michael Doran in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943-55 by Michael Cohen on page 78, and page 196
- A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Kurds, Arabs and Britons: The Memoir of Col. W.A. Lyon in Kurdistan, 1918-1945 by David K. Fieldhouse on page 234, and Back Matter
- Britain and Poland 1939-1943: The Betrayed Ally (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) by Anita J. Prazmowska in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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