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Inventing Iraq : the failure of nation-building and a history denied / by Toby Dodge.
Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2003Edition: [New ed.]Description: xlii, 260 p. : map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780231131674 (pbk.) :
- 0231131674 (pbk.) :
- DS70.96.G7 D633 2003
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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | DS 70.96 .G7 D633 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5119301 |
New preface.
"Paperback edition, 2005."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247) and index.
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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