Table of Contents:
  • Modest hopes : Iraqi intellectuals in the early 1920s
  • Protecting pluralism, 1931-1945
  • Renaissance and revolution, 1945-1958
  • Narratives of Iraqi and Arab nationalism(s)
  • Strangers in our midst : Iraq's others
  • The rural nation : intellectuals, tribesmen, and peasants
  • Educating the nation : modes and theories of discipline.