Great powers, oil and the Kurds in Mosul : (Southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq), 1910-1925 /

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Author / Creator:Atarodi, Habibollah, 1946-
Imprint:Lanham, MA : University Press of America, 2003.
Description:xix, 233 p. : ill. : 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5047796
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ISBN:0761825363
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I.. Historical Context
  • Anglo-Turkish Relations after the 1908 Young Turks Revolution
  • Outbreak of War between Britain and the Ottoman Empire
  • Britain's Objectives in Attacking the Ottoman Empire
  • Wartime Secret Agreements
  • 1.. Anglo-Arab Agreements
  • 2.. Great Powers Agreements
  • II.. The Role of Oil in British Occupation of Mosul
  • Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC)
  • Situation during the War
  • The Occupation of Mosul
  • III.. Anglo-French Rivalry over Mosul
  • Oil Negotiations
  • The King-Crane Commission Report
  • Resumption of the Oil Negotiations
  • IV.. Anglo-American Controversy over the Mosul Oil
  • American Concern for Oil
  • Start of the Controversy
  • Towards Reconciliation and Cooperation
  • Chester Concession and Difficulties at Lausanne
  • Acquiring a New Concession for the TPC
  • Gulbenkian Problem
  • V.. Britain and Arab Nationalism in Iraq
  • Setting up a Local Administration (1917)
  • Imposition of the Mandate System and Start of the Arab Rebellion (June 1920)
  • The Cairo Conference and Its Decisions (March 1921)
  • VI.. Britain and Kurdish Nationalism in Mosul
  • Setting up a Kurdish Administration at Sulaimaniya
  • Tension in Anglo-Kurdish Relations
  • The First Kurdish Uprising (May 1919)
  • Disunity among the British Officials
  • Kurdistan in the Treaty of Sevres (10 August 1920)
  • The Kurdish Issue in the Cairo Conference (March 1921)
  • The Second Kurdish Uprising (May 1922)
  • VII.. Britain and Turkey's Claim over Mosul
  • The Mosul Issue in the Lausanne Peace Conference (November 1922-July 1923)
  • Action by the League of Nations
  • Creating an International Commission of Enquiry
  • Kurdish Uprising in Turkey (February 1925)
  • The Commission of Enquiry's Report
  • Seeking the Advisory Opinion of the Permanent Court of International Justice
  • The Laidoner Commission
  • The League of Nations' Decision (December 1925)
  • The Final Settlement (June 1926)
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Maps