Inventing Iraq
Subtitle: the failure of nation building and a history denied
By: Toby Dodge.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Description: An examination of the construction of the modern state of Iraq under the auspices of the British Empire, from 1920 and 1932. Parallels are drawn between the polices of a declining British empire and those of the current administration.