| Description |
xxxvi, 208 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Middle East classics |
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Middle East classics.
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| Contents |
Gertrude Bell's The Arab of Mesopotamia / introduction by Paul Rich -- Introduction to the Lexington edition / Paul Rich -- The Arab of Mesopotamia -- Asiatic Turkey / by Gertrude Lowthian Bell -- Middle Eastern women and historical horizons / Paul Rich |
| Summary |
"Gertrude Bell was one of a select group of Western Arabists who helped create the modern Middle East. She was arguably the single most influential individual in Iraq when, in the aftermath of World War I, the British attempted to create a nation out of regions that had long been different provinces of the Ottoman Empire. She was called upon to produce this succinct but insightful volume us a guide for the military officers and civil servants who were attempting to create an Iraqi government." "A long dispute over whether the volume was actually written by her is settled in Dr. Paul Rich's introduction. It not only is written by Bell, but the reader can see in what she chooses to emphasize just what her awn views are on the course that the development of Iraq should take."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Arabs -- Iraq.
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| SUBJECT |
Iraq. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79077342
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Turkey. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80070818
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| Author |
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.
Asiatic Turkey
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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.
Arab of Mesopotamia
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Rich, P. J. (Paul John)
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| LC no. |
2007044980 |
| ISBN |
9780739125618 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0739125613 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780739125625 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0739125621 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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