Iraq - Kegan Paul Arabia Library Author:IRELAND This book published in 1937 is being reissued now because of its obvious contemporary parallels. How was Iraq to be taken from being a "remote" and neglected portion of the Ottoman Empire in 1941 to her then-position of a political unit possessing supposedly all the machinery of a modern state? The growth of Arab nationalism in the region, the e... more »stablishment of a provisional government, and the search for a ruler all had to be dealt with by the skillful British in the mandated territory.« less