Gertrude Bell and Iraq A life and legacy

by Tripp, Charles; Collins, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780197266076
• ISBN10: 019726607X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-05-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Charles Tripp is Professor of Middle East Politics at University of London.

Paul Collins is Curator for Ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction, Paul Collins & Charles Tripp
Part I: Gertrude Bell and the Ottoman Empire
2. Gertrude Bell and the Ottoman Empire, Peter Sluglett
Part II: Gertrude Bell and Archaeology
3. A Critical Examination of Gertrude Bell's Contribution to Archaeological Research in Central Asia Minor, Mark P. C. Jackson
4. 'Better than any ruined site in the world' - Gertrude Bell and the Ancient City of Assur, Lisa Cooper
5. What Gertrude Bell did for Islamic Archaeology, Rosalind Wade Haddon
Part III: Gertrude Bell - A Woman in a Man's World
6. Gertrude Bell - Pioneer, Anti-Suffragist, Feminist Icon?, Helen Berry
7. Fragments of a Mirror: The Writing of Gertrude Bell, Tamara Chalabi
Part IV: Gertrude Bell and the Making of the Iraqi State
8. Gertrude Bell's Perception of Faisal I of Iraq and the Anglo-Arab Romance, Myriam Yakoubi
9. Gertrude Bell and the Formation of the Iraqi State: The Kurdish Dimension, Saad B. Eskander
Part V: Gertrude Bell and Iraqi Heritage
10. Gertrude Bell and the Antiquities Law of Iraq, Magnus T. Bernhardsson
11. Gertrude Bell and the Evolution of the Library Tradition in Iraq, Ian Johnson
12. Gertrude Bell in the Archive of the Iraq Museum, Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
Appendix
13. In Memoriam: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (July 14, 1868 - July 12, 1926), Janet E Courtney (nee Hogarth) introduced by Moayad Hanoush
Index