The decline of British influence and the ruling elite in Iraq

Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943-55

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 185-

  Eppel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 85069992552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203044483-23     Document Type: Chapter

References (14)

1. Michael Eppel, ‘The Elite, the Effendiyya and the Socio-political Conditions of the Growth of Nationalism and the Diffusion of Pan-Arab Ideology in Hashemite Iraq: 1921-1958', International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (forthcoming).
2. Peter Sluglett, Britain in Iraq, 1914-1932 (London: Ithaca, 1976).
3. Walid M. S. Hamdi, Rashid Ali al-Gailani and the Nationalist Movement in Iraq, 1939-1941(London: Dart, 1987).
4. Daniel Silverfarb, The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East (London: Macmillan 1994) pp. 12-19.
5. Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and Revolutionary Movements of Iraq (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978) pp. 31-2, 99-110.
6. Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and Revolutionary Movements of Iraq (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978), p. 103.
7. Wm Roger Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East, Arab Nationalism, the United States and Postwar Imperialism (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 315-17.
8. Michael Eppel, The Palestine Conflict in the History of Modern Iraq (London: Frank Cass, 1994), pp. 160-1.
9. Louis, British Empire in the Middle East, p. 328.
10. Silverfarb, Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East, pp. 132-4.
11. Matthew Elliot, Independent Iraq, the Monarchy and British Influence (London, New York: Tauris, 1996) p. 32.
12. Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, Oil in the Middle East: A Political, Social and Economic History (London: Oxford University Press, 1968) pp. 189-91.
13. Gerwin Gerke, ‘The Iraq Development Board and British Policy, 1945-1950', Middle Eastern Studies, 27 (1991) pp. 231-55.
14. Michael Eppel, ‘The Fadhil al-Jamali Government in Iraq, 1953-1954: The Last Attempt at Changes and Reforms in the Conservative Regime Before the Revolution’, Journal of Contemporary History (forthcoming).