Inventing Iraq : the failure of nation-building and a history denied / by Toby Dodge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodge, Toby.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Iraq--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Iraq.

International relations.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Relations--Iraq.

Nation-state.

Sovereignty.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

United States.

Politics and government.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Physical Description:

xix, 260 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Dodge offers a sobering look back at the first attempt by a Western power to remake Iraq in its own image.

Contents:

1. Understanding the Mandate in Iraq 1

2. The Mandate System, the End of Imperialism, and the Birth of the Iraqi State 5

3. Corruption, Fragmentation, and Despotism: British Visions of Ottoman Iraq 43

4. Rural and Urban: The Divided Social Imagination of Late Colonialism 63

5. Using the Shaikhs: The Rational Imposition of a Romantic Figure 83

6. The Social Meaning of Land: State, Shaikh, and Peasant 101

7. The Imposition of Order: Social Perception and the "Despotic" Power of Airplanes 131

Conclusion: Iraq's Past And Possible Iraqi Futures 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-247) and index.

ISBN:

0231131666

OCLC:

52127749