Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country

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Cover ; Contents; Notes on Transliteration; Abbreviations; Foreword by Albert Hourani; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Maps; Introduction; 1. From the Outbreak of War to the Cairo Conference, 1914-1921; 2. From the Cairo Conference to the Ratification of the Anglo-Iraq Treaty, March 1921-September 1924; 3. Oil, Boundaries and Insolvency: Political and Economic Problems, 1924-1926; 4. The Years of Frustration, 1926-1929; 5. Prelude to Independence, 1929-1932; 6. Tenurial, Revenue and Tribal Policy.;As the attention of the world is focused on the increasingly beleaguered US and UK occupation of Iraq, Iraq expert and Middle East historian Peter Sluglett revisits Britain's creation of Iraq in the twentieth century in this thoroughly revised edition of his classic text Britain in Iraq. Peter Sluglett presents a comprehensive history of British policy towards Iraq from the beginnings of the Mesopotamia campaign in 1914 through the creation of Iraq in 1920 and the period of the mandate until Iraqi independence in 1932. As well as being a history of Britain's relations with Iraq, the book also.