| Description |
xix, 260 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Understanding the mandate in Iraq -- The mandate system, the end of Imperialism, and the birth of the Iraqi State -- Corruption, fragmentation, and despotism : British visions of Ottoman Iraq -- Rural and urban : the divided social imagination of late colonialism -- Using the shaikhs : the rational imposition of a romantic figure -- The social meaning of land : state, shaikh, and peasant -- The imposition of order : social perception and the "despotic" power of airplanes -- Iraq's past and possible Iraqi futures. |
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Iraq -- Relations -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Relations -- Iraq.
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Nation-state.
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Sovereignty.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
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Iraq War, 2003-2011
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| ISBN |
0231131666 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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