CIAO DATE: 06/06

Inventing Iraq : The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied

Toby Dodge

Columbia University Press

August 2005

 

Table of Contents

Preface & Contents

  1. Understanding the Mandate in Iraq

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

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

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

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

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

  7. The Imposition of Order: Social Perception and the “Despotic” Power of Airplanes

  8. Conclusion: Iraq’s Past And Possible Iraqi Futures

Notes

Bibliography & Acknowledgments

Index