The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921

Edited by Reeva Spector Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian

Paper, 200 pages, 8 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-13293-0
$25.50 / £15.00

January, 2005
Cloth, 200 pages, 8 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-13292-3
$74.00 / £43.50

Preface, by Gary G. Sick

Introduction, by Reeva S. Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian

Chapter 1: The View from Basra: Southern Iraq's Reaction to War and Occupation, 1915-1925, by Judith S. Yaphe

Chapter 2: The View from Baghdad, by Reeva S. Simon

Chapter 3: Mosul Questions: Economy, Identity, and Annexation, by Sarah Shields

Chapter 4: The Evolution of the Iran-Iraq Border, by Lawrence G. Potter

Chapter 5:A Kemalist Gambit: A View of the Political Negotiations in the Determination of the Turkish-Iraqi Border, by David Cuthell

Chapter 6: Kurds and the Formation of the State of Iraq, 1917-1932, by M. R. Izady

Chapter 7: The Oil Resources of Iraq: Their Role in the Policies of the Great Powers, by George E. Gruen

Chapter 8: Russia from Empire to Revolution, by Peter J. Sinnott

Chapter 9: Britain, France, and the Diplomatic Agreements, by David Fromkin

Chapter 10: The United States, the Ottoman Empire, and the Postwar Settlement, by Eleanor H. Tejirian

Postscript

Additional Readings

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. She is also author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny (Columbia). Eleanor H. Tejirian is an associate research scholar at the Middle East Institute. She is coeditor (with Simon) of Altruism and Imperialism: Western Religious and Cultural Missions in the Middle East.

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