evidence: Book contents - Frontmatter - Contents - List of illustrations - Chronology - Glossary - List of abbreviations - Map 1 Iraq: principal towns - Map 2 Basra, Kuwait and the Shatt al-ʿArab - Map 3 Iraq and the Middle East - Map 4 Kurdish Iraq - Introduction - 1 The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul - 2 The British Mandate - 3 The Hashemite monarchy 1932–41 - 4 The Hashemite monarchy 1941–58 - 5 The republic 1958–68 - 6 The Baʿth and the rule of Saddam Husain 1968–2003 - 7 The American occupation and the parliamentary republic - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Further reading and research - Index Map 2 - Basra, Kuwait and the Shatt al-ʿArab Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014 - Frontmatter - Contents - List of illustrations - Chronology - Glossary - List of abbreviations - Map 1 Iraq: principal towns - Map 2 Basra, Kuwait and the Shatt al-ʿArab - Map 3 Iraq and the Middle East - Map 4 Kurdish Iraq - Introduction - 1 The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul - 2 The British Mandate - 3 The Hashemite monarchy 1932–41 - 4 The Hashemite monarchy 1941–58 - 5 The republic 1958–68 - 6 The Baʿth and the rule of Saddam Husain 1968–2003 - 7 The American occupation and the parliamentary republic - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Further reading and research - Index