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21 - Politics and International Studies

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Output 161 of 235 in the submission

Article title

Stephen Hemsley Longrigg et ses contemporains: le despotisme oriental et les Britanniques en Irak (1914-1932)

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

Title of journal

Maghreb-Machrek

Article number

Volume number

204

Issue number

First page of article

ISSN of journal

1762-3162

Year of publication

2010

URL

http://choiseul-editions.com/Num_Revues.php?idNum=205&pg_aff=0&artParPage=6#

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

Yes

English abstract

This article uses the British colonial archive and contemporaneous literature to examine the influence of Orientalist discourses on the perceptions and actions of the four most significant British colonial officials involved in building the Iraqi state. The paper argues that within the wider discourse of Orientalism, a secondary, more specific ideational construct, Oriental Despotism, shaped British perceptions of state-society relations in the post-Ottoman Middle East. It is this ideational structure that shaped the way the state in Iraq was built, how it interacted with society and how it raised money to fund itself.