Title Inventing Iraq : the failure of nation-building and a history denied / by Toby Dodge.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
	©2003

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	DS70.96.G7 D633 2003	Available	---

Description	xix, 260 pages : map ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.
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.
Subject	Iraq -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
	Iraq.
	International relations.
	Great Britain.
	Great Britain -- Relations -- Iraq.
	Relations.
	Nation-state.
	Nation-state.
	Sovereignty.
	Sovereignty.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
	United States.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	2001-2009
Subject	Iraq War, 2003-2011.
	Iraq War (2003-2011)
ISBN	0231131666 cloth alkaline paper