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An explorer, archaeologist, scholar, writer, and policymaker, Gertude Bell was a colourful figure who played an outsize role in the history of the Middle East in the early twentieth century. This book carefully examines Bell’s published and unpublished letters, diaries, notes, and publications to reconstruct and reevaluate Bell’s intentions and legacy in the Middle East in the aftermath of the First World War. It focuses on her correspondence with senior figures to examine the well-networked Bell as a policymaker in waiting.It also reappraises Bell's role in the formation of the Kingdom of Iraq, assessing her public statements in support of Faisal, Iraq's future king, against the doubts regarding “Britain’s mission” in the region as she previously understood the colonial enterprise. Centering her own experience and reflections in the context of wider events, this book adds nuance to perceptions of Bell as a one-sided agent of the British Empire and explores the legacy of her actions in Iraq and the West-Middle East relations today.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Notes on secondary sources Chapter 1: Documents, links to the past. Gertrude Bell, a life story Miscellaneous, Reflections Chapter 2 Biography as Art A look into Gertrude Bell’s inner world Chapter 3: Gertrude Bell, Explorer. ‘Wind and dust, a little rain...’ Ukhaydir, uncertainties The vaulting system, continuities Tours and impressions and a new book Amurath to Amurath Karbala Baghdad Samarra Qal‘at Sharqat Mount Sinjar and Lalish Tur ‘Abdin, Mountain of the Servants of God Carchemish With Koldewey in Babylon Chapter 4: Ha’yl Journeys The Blunts’ Pilgrimage to the Nejd Ha’yl, Gertrude Bell's landmark journey Baghdad, shifting times Chapter 5: Gertrude Bell, Analyst: The Arab Question Kut al-‘Amara The Peace Conference: on the sidelines Palestine, Syria, and the Arab Bureau “Syria in October 1919”, encounters From Mesopotamia to al-Iraq, unfolding realities. Chapter 6: Gertrude Bell, The Review Sir Percy and the Gulf, strategies and connections The Shi‘i areas in the Review The Kurdish areas in the Review Administrative issues Chapter 7: Gertrude Bell, Policy Maker A matter of policy or administration? Uncertainties, Gertrude Bell and Lord Hardinge The Cairo Conference and the “Forty Thieves’: Schemes and Realities King Faysal's parallel roads to Independence The Karbala Conference, ‘incomplete’ Chapter 8: The Ango- Iraqi Treaty, Texts and Subtexts The Shi‘i mujtahids and the elections Subtexts unravelling The Mosul Question: Wheat, tobacco, and oil Chapter 9: Past Uncertainties and Certainties ‘Desert Queen’, or a ‘Daughter of Empire’? Archeology, as a quest Archeology and Nationalism The Mysteries of Ur Hatra Chapter 10: ‘Desert Queen’, or a ‘Daughter of the Empire’? Certainties and uncertainties in retrospect The Arab movement , years on With Lord Hardinge and Percy Loraine, the full picture in reverse Judging Bell from today’s perspective The ‘Invention of Tradition’, In a reverse Logic of Things Impressions on ‘Gertrude Bell’s Moment in Iraq’ by leading Iraqi Personalities . Bell, Education and al- Jamali’s New Iraq

About the Author :
Liora Lukitz holds a PhD from LSE and an award from the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation that made possible the publication of three books and many articles. She is also the author of A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq (I.B. Tauris, 2006) and the upcoming title Ancient History and Technology, New Concepts of Communication (2025)

Review :
This thought-provoking study is by an experienced scholar of Iraq and of Gertrude Bell’s life. Now Dr. Lukitz reappraises and refines her analysis of both the region and Bell’s contradictions and significance for history and historians. Her writing is fortified by focusing on rich, untapped miscellaneous documents within Bell’s archive alongside uncensored family correspondence. This makes compelling reading. Gertrude Bell remains an enigmatic and controversial person in Middle Eastern history after World War I. Through a close reading of Bell’s letters and informed through the author’s previous historical and biographical studies, in this ‘Reappraisal’ Lioara Lukitiz offers new and nuanced insights to Bell’s role in the British responses to the emerging variations of nationalism and radical Islam which came to shape contemporary Iraq.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780755655496
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: I.B. Tauris
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Sub Title: A Reappraisal
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0755655494
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 540 gr


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