Ian Rutledge is an economist and historian. A graduate of the University of Cambridge where he received his PhD in Economic History, Rutledge is Research Director and co-founder of the Sheffield Energy Resources Information Services. He has taught at the Universities of London and Sheffield and for the Workers' Educational Association. His other publications include Addicted to Oil: America's Relentless Drive for Energy Security. He lives in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Note on Arabic Transliteration
Glossary
Abbreviations
Preface
The Principal Actors

PART ONE: INVASION, JIHAD AND OCCUPATION

1 Indications of Oil
2 Lieutenant Wilson's First Mission
3 'Protect the oil refineries'
4 Arab Mobilisation on the Euphrates
5 The Jihad Defeated
6 Pacifying Arabistan
7 Imperial Objectives in the East
8 The Menace of Jihad and How to Deal with It
9 The Lieutenant from Mosul
10 The Peculiar Origins of an Infamous Agreement
11 Two British Defeats but a New Ally
12 Colonel Leachman and Captain Lawrence
13 Mosul and Oil
14 'Complete liberation'
15 Najaf 1918: First Uprising on the Euphrates
16 Britain's New Colony
17 The Oil Agreements
18 The Independence Movement in Baghdad
19 General Haldane's Difficult Posting
20 Trouble on the Frontiers

PART TWO: REVOLUTION AND SUPPRESSION

21 The Drift to Violence
22 The Revolution Begins
23 Discord and Disputation
24 General Haldane's Indian Army
25 'The situation has come to a head'
26 The Destruction of the Manchester Column
27 'Further unfavourable developments'
28 The Structures of Insurgent Power
29 Trouble on the Home Front
30 The Siege of Samawa
31 Defeat
32 A Death on the Baghdad Road
33 The Punishment
34 A 'friendly native state'

Afterword
Appendix: Some Biographical Notes
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index