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'Iraq, 1900 to 1950: a Political, Social and Economic History
'Iraq, 1900 to 1950: a Political, Social and Economic History
By Stephen Hemsley Longrigg
Oxford University Press (for the Royal Institute of International Affairs), 1953, 436 pp

In 1925 Brigadier Longrigg wrote "Four Centuries of Modern 'Iraq." The present book picks up the story at 1900 and provides a compact history, primarily political though including economic and social developments, of the last half-century. A valuable book, not lacking in marked opinions.

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