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| Place of Publication | London, England : |
| Publisher's Name | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of Publication | 1957 |
| Extent | 458p. |
| Other Details | 2 figures, 32 illustrations, indexed, 4 maps |
| Item Descriptor | In all, the book reflects his professional background, and possesses maps, charts of tribal structures and family trees, photographs of key personalities, and even architectural diagrams of traditional Kurdish town homes. He also provides an interesting observation on the position of the Kurdish region in the context of British colonial governance at the time: "Most of the British officials in the Baghdad ministries and departments were as fanatical as any nationalist Arab in their refusal to admit that these Kurds, who had deliberately chosen to stay without the pale, had any right whatever to their assistance. Given a law-abiding and industrious community some kind of governance might have carried on for a time, but in a country where the ordinary obligations of decent citizenship were regarded by nine-tenths of the population as intolerable impositions the Political Officer had a fantastically impossible task." |
| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
| Subject Entry | Kurds - History; Edmonds, Cecil John Kurds Turks Arabs Iraq - Description and travel; Mosul, Iraq Kurds - International politics |
| Item Record | Status | Return | Accession No. | Note |
| 1. Main | Reference | Available | A0054380 |