Iraq: The Search for National Identity

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part I......Page 24
1 Formal Independence and Informal Implications: Treaties, Agreements and State-formation......Page 26
THE MOSUL QUESTION......Page 29
THE 1930 TREATY......Page 32
THE ASSYRIAN AND OTHER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES: STATE-FORMATION, TRIAL AND ERROR......Page 34
KURDS AND TURKMEN: POLITICS AND CULTURE......Page 44
LAND TENURE AND STATE-FORMATION......Page 60
STATE-FORMATION AND POLITICAL/CULTURAL REACTIONS......Page 67
4 Contexts, Textures and Nationalism......Page 80
THE 1936 COUP D’ÉTAT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS......Page 88
NATIONALISM, OFFICERS, SOLDIERS......Page 96
Part II......Page 108
5 The Search for a National Identity......Page 110
6 The Northern Provinces in the 1940s......Page 124
7 The Southern Provinces in the 1940s......Page 132
8 Shifting Loyalties, Accomplished Identities? The 1950s......Page 140
ALLIANCES, LOYALTIES AND IDENTITIES......Page 152
Afterword......Page 160
INTRODUCTION......Page 164
CHAPTER 8......Page 190
CHAPTER 1......Page 165
CHAPTER 2......Page 167
CHAPTER 3......Page 172
CHAPTER 4......Page 178
CHAPTER 5......Page 186
CHAPTER 6......Page 189
CONCLUSION......Page 192
AFTERWORD......Page 193
Glossary......Page 194
UNPUBLISHED SOURCES......Page 200
PUBLISHED SOURCES......Page 201
Index......Page 212