Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny

Reeva Spector Simon

Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13215-2
$30.00 / £17.50

revised edition
July, 2004
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13214-5
$75.00 / £44.00

Introduction

I. The Creation of a State

II. The Officers, Germany, and Nationalism

III. The Officers in Iraq

IV. Education

V. The Army

VI. The Rashid 'Ali Coup

VII. Conclusion

Appendixes

I. The Hashimites

II. Iraqi Cabinets 1921-1941

Biographical Sketches

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Reeva Spector Simon is a research scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and coeditor of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times.

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