Gertrude Bell And Iraq

Author : Paul Thomas Collins,Charles Tripp
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 019726607X

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Gertrude Bell and Iraq by Paul Thomas Collins,Charles Tripp Pdf

This is a major re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist, and British civil servant. The book examines Gertrude Bell's role in shaping British policy in the Middle East in the first part of the 20th century, her views of the cultures and peoples of the region, and her unusual position as a woman occupying a senior position in the British imperial administration. It focuses particularly on her involvement in Iraq and the part she played in the establishment of the Iraqi monarchy and the Iraqi state. In addition, the book examines her interests in Iraq's ancient past. She was instrumental in drawing up Iraq's first Antiquities Law in 1922 and in the foundation of the Iraq Museum in 1923. Gertrude Bell refused to be constrained by the expectations of the day, and was able to succeed in a man's world of high politics and diplomacy. She remains a controversial figure, however, especially in the context of the founding of the modern state of Iraq. Does she represent a more innocent age when the country was born out of the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, or does she personify the attitudes and decisions that have created today's divided Middle East? The volume's authors bring new insights to these questions.

Author : Liora Lukitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857716040

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A Quest in the Middle East by Liora Lukitz Pdf

Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archaeologist, traveller and 'orientalist'. A remarkable woman in male-dominated Edwardian society, she shunned convention by eschewing marriage and family for an academic career and the extensive travelling that would lead to her major role in Middle Eastern diplomacy. But her private life war marred by the tragedy, vulnerability and frustration that were key to her quest both for a British dominated Middle East and relief from the torture of her romantic failures. Through her vivid writings, she brought the Arab world alive for countless Britons as she travelled to some of the region's most inhospitable places. She explored the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I when her travels throughout the region and her knowledge of Arabic made her indispensable to British Intelligence. Alongside T.E. Lawrence, she was hugely instrumental in the post-war reconfiguration of the Arab states in the Middle East. In Iraq, in particular, she became a friend and confidant of the new King Faisal, and a prime mover in drawing up the country's boundaries and establishing a constitutional monarchy there, with its parliament, civil service and legal system. She was influential in creating the state which had all the trappings of independence while remaining a virtual British colony. The legacy of her work is still being played out in the conflicts of today. Yet behind Gertrude Bell's public success was a backdrop of personal passions, desires and the relationships that drove this extraordinary woman. Embroiled in an unsuccessful love affair with Charles Doughty-Wylie, a married man, she found peace in the solitude of the desert. But the seemingly intractable problems of the newly independent Iraq led her to write of the 'weariness of it all'. Shortly afterwards she took her own life with a lethal dose of sleeping pills. Using previously unseen sources, including Gertude Bell's own diaries and letters, Liora Lukitz provides a deeper political and personal biography of this influential character. A Quest in the Middle East is a lyrical and illuminating portrait of a woman born ahead of her time, grappling with issues that would shape the future of the Middle East.

Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0739125621

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Iraq and Gertrude Bell's The Arab of Mesopotamia by Gertrude Lowthian Bell Pdf

To understand contemporary Iraq and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, no book provides a surer guide or more unsettling experience, written as it was for another war, another army, and another time. Gertrude Bell for a fleeting moment was the optimistic progenitor of the Iraq that today is becoming unglued.

Author : Gertrude Bell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547406174

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The Letters of Gertrude Bell by Gertrude Bell Pdf

The Letters of Gertrude Bell is about English writer and traveler Gertrude Bell, who was a great asset to British policymakers due to her experiences in the Middle East. Excerpt: "In the letters contained in this book there will be found many Eastern names, both of people and places, difficult to handle for those, like me, not conversant with Arabic. The Arabic alphabet has characters for which we have no satisfactory equivalents and the Arab language has sounds which we find it difficult to reproduce."

Author : Georgina Howell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330476034

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Daughter of the Desert by Georgina Howell Pdf

Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. Daughter of the Desert is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude’s own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy. ‘What a great Oscar-laden biopic this will make ...the combination of epic scenes and personal drama makes Georgina Howell’s saga a winner’ Daily Express 'Howell sketches in the gradations of colour and emotion that have been lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell's life ... Exemplary' Sunday Times ‘Riveting ... few women have had a life more worth reading about.’ Diana Athill, Literary Review

Author : Susan Goodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081913449

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Gertrude Bell by Susan Goodman Pdf

During her lifetime the name of Gertrude Bell evoked rich images of the exotic and mysterious Arab world. But her fame faded and now she is remembered only as a friend and colleague of T.E. Lawrence. She was an intrepid traveller, journeying alone through the deserts of the Middle East or scaling testing peaks in the Swiss Alps. Later, as a British political officer in Baghdad, where she died and is buried, she was able to play a considerable role in determining the future of Mesopotamia, later to be called Iraq.

Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Baghdad (Iraq)
ISBN : 9781406800531

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Letters of Gertrude Bell (Volume 2) 1921-1926 by Gertrude Lowthian Bell Pdf

Letters mainly from Bagdad and the Middle East 1917-1928

Author : Hannah Khalil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350150829

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A Museum in Baghdad by Hannah Khalil Pdf

This is about my responsibility. Doing what is right. Being where I'm needed. I've started a job and I must finish it. I owe it to the people of Iraq. In 1926, the nation of Iraq is in its infancy, and British archaeologist Gertrude Bell is founding a museum in Baghdad. In 2006, Ghalia Hussein is attempting to reopen the museum after looting during the war. Decades apart, these two women share the same goals: to create a fresh sense of unity and nationhood, to make the world anew through the museum and its treasures. But in such unstable times, questions remain. Who is the museum for? Whose culture are we preserving? And why does it matter when people are dying? A story of treasured history, desperate choices and the remarkable Gertrude Bell. This edition of Hannah Khalil's epic new play was published to coincide with the world premiere at the RSC's The Other Place in 2019.

Author : Janet Wallach
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474603379

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Desert Queen by Janet Wallach Pdf

The life of Gertrude Bell is now the subject of the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Damian Lewis Turning away from privileged Victorian Britain, Gertrude Bell explored, mapped and excavated the world of the Arabs, winning the trust of Arab sheiks and chieftains along the way. When the First World War erupted and the British needed the loyalty of Arab leaders, Gertrude Bell provided the intelligence for T.E. Lawrence's military activities. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East, and was generally considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this major reassessment of Bell's life, Janet Wallach reveals a woman whose achievements and independent spirit were especially remarkable for her times, and who brought the same passion and intensity to her explorations as she did to her rich and romantic life.

Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108021593

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The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Lowthian Bell Pdf

Blending photographs with descriptions of customs and communities, Bell's volume recounts a portion of her groundbreaking 1905 expedition across Syria.

Author : Heather Lehr Wagner
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781438148540

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Gertrude Bell by Heather Lehr Wagner Pdf

Bell became one of the most influential women in the British Empire during World War I, using her extensive knowledge of the Middle East to advise British commanders in the creation of the modern Middle East.;Bell explored and.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 185795162X

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Extraordinary Gertrude Bell by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Bagdad
ISBN : UOM:39015012066224

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The Letters of Gertrude Bell by Gertrude Lowthian Bell Pdf

Author : Georgina Howell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429934015

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Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell Pdf

A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author (of Persian Pictures, The Desert and the Sown, and many other collections), poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer (she took off her skirt and climbed the Alps in her underclothes). She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert, where she traveled with only her guns and her servants. Her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the Cairo Intelligence Office of the British government during World War I. She advised the Viceroy of India; then, as an army major, she traveled to the front lines in Mesopotamia. There, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state. Gertrude Bell, vividly told and impeccably researched by Georgina Howell, is a richly compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and times, and in so doing, created a remarkable and enduring legacy. " ... there’s never a dull moment in the peerless life of this trailblazing character." - Kirkus Reviews

Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Iraq
ISBN : OCLC:3339763

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“The” Letters of Gertrude Bell by Gertrude Lowthian Bell Pdf