2. The View from Baghdad

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The View from Basra 19
7. 2. The View from Baghdad 36
8. 3. Mosul Questions: Economy, Identity, and Annexation 50
9. 4. The Evolution of the Iran-Iraq Border 61
10. 5. A Kemalist Gambit 80
11. 6. Kurds and the Formation of the State of Iraq, 1917–1932 95
12. 7. The Oil Resources of Iraq 110
13. 8. Russia from Empire to Revolution 125
14. 9. Britain, France, and the Diplomatic Agreements 134
15. 10. The United States, the Ottoman Empire, and the Postwar Settlement 146
16. Postscript 162
17. Appendix .The Sykes-Picot Agreement: 1916 165
18. Additional Readings 169
19. List of Contributors 171
20. Index 175