TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dodge,Toby
TI  - Inventing Iraq: the failure of nation-building and a history denied 
SN  - 9780231131674 (pbk.) :
AV  - DS70.96.G7 D633 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Iraq War (2003-2011)
KW  - fast
KW  - Nation-state
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Political science
KW  - Relations
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-2009
N1  - 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
ER  -