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| List of illustrations | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Glossary | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Iraq: principal towns | |
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| Basra, Kuwait and the Shatt al-'Arab | |
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| Iraq and the Middle East | |
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| Kurdish Iraq | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul | |
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| Power in the three provinces | |
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| The Ottoman 'reconquest' of the three provinces | |
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| Sultan Abdulhamid II and the Young Turks | |
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| The Committee of Union and Progress and its opponents | |
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| The British Mandate | |
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| British occupation and reactions | |
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| The Iraqi revolt of 1920 | |
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| The institutional definition of the state | |
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| Mandate and treaty | |
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| The Mosul question: territory and oil | |
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| Different communities, different purposes, different histories | |
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| Emerging trends in politics and the economy | |
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| The Hashemite monarchy 1932-41 | |
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| Communal identities and tribal unrest | |
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| Social criticism and political conspiracy | |
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| The coup d'etat of 1936 | |
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| Military politics: pan-Arabism and army conspiracies | |
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| Iraq in the Second World War | |
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| The coup d'etat of 1941 and the British military occupation | |
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| The Hashemite monarchy 1941-58 | |
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| Re-establishing the regime | |
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| Thwarted liberalisation | |
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| Foreign policies: Arab issues, Palestine and the Portsmouth Treaty | |
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| Economic development and party politics | |
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| Nuri al-Sa'id: the politics of reform and repression | |
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| Nuri al-Sa'id: foreign initiatives and domestic challenges | |
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| The coup d'etat of 1958 | |
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| The republic 1958-68 | |
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| 'Abd al-Karim Qasim: dictatorship and disillusion | |
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| Iraqi foreign policy under Qasim | |
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| The politics of conspiracy and the coup d'etat of February 1963 | |
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| Ba'thist control and loss of control in 1963 | |
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| 'Abd al-Salam 'Arif: Nasserist aspirations and Iraqi realities | |
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| Patrimonialism and the rule of the clan | |
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| 'Abd al-Rahman 'Arif: a weakening hold on power | |
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| The Ba'th and the rule of Saddam Husain 1968-2003 | |
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| Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and the consolidation of power | |
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| Kurdish and Shi'i challenges and relations with Iran | |
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| Economic patronage, political control and foreign policy alignments | |
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| War in Kurdistan | |
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| Oil revenues, foreign policies and the rise of Saddam Husain | |
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| Saddam Husain's presidency and the war with Iran in 1980 | |
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| Defending the regime and Iraq after 1982 | |
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| A war of attrition 1984-8 | |
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| Resistance amongst the Kurds and the Shi'a | |
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| The aftermath of war and rhe invasion of Kuwait 1988-90 | |
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| The war for Kuwait and the uprisings of 1991 | |
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| Iraq under sanctions and the long aftermath of the Gulf war | |
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| Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish politics | |
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| The 'shadow state' in Iraq | |
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| War and the fall of Saddam Husain | |
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| The American occupation and the parliamentary republic | |
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| The rule of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) | |
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| New institutions and old politics | |
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| Insurgency, sectarianism and the spectre of civil war | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Further reading and research | |
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| Index | |