Introduction: State Society Relations in Iraq: Negotiating a Contested Historiography
Benjamin Isakhan and Fadi Dawood
Part I: Colonial Rule and the Making of Modern Iraq
Chapter 1: The Ba'qubah Refugee Camp, 1919-22: State-Society Relations in Occupied Iraq
Fadi Dawood
Chapter 2: State-Society Relations in the Iraqi Urban Sphere of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58
Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Chapter 3: The Government is the Servant of the People': State and Society in the Short Stories of Shakir Khu?bak and Gha'ib ?u'ma Farman
Hilla Peled-Shapira
Chapter 4: Education Policy in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing Visions of the State
Hilary Falb Kalisman
Chapter 5: Military-Society Relations in Iraq, 1920-58: Competing Roles of the Army
Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Part II: Republican Iraq: State-Society Relations Under Authoritarian Rule
Dangerous liaisons': Abd al-Karim Qasim and the Student Movements of the First Iraqi Republic, 1958-63
Jordi Tejel
Chapter 6: Rural Violence versus Urban Intellectualism: A Paradox of Integration and Emancipation
Alda Benjamen and Sargon George Donabed
Chapter 7: Ba`thi Iraq in the 1970s: Historiography of Medieval Islam and Contemporary Politics
Amatzia Baram
Chapter 8: Ba'thist Penetration of Shi'i Religious Institutions
Samuel Helfont
Part III: Communal Strife and Re-emergent Authoritarianism in Post-2003 Iraq
Chapter 9: The Consolidation of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Integrity of the Iraqi State
Gareth Stansfield
Chapter 10: Political Parties, Elections and the Transformation of Iraqi Politics Since 2003
Marc Lemieux and Shamiran Mako
Chapter 11: The Road to the 'Islamic State': State-Society Relations after the US Withdrawal from Iraq
Benjamin Isakhan
Conclusion: Lessons from the Past for a Future Iraq
Benjamin Isakhan and Shamiran Mako
