Series foreword / Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling
Acknowledgments
Timeline of historical events
The land and people of Iraq
The cradle of civilization
Babylonia
The Muslim conquest
The Ottoman Empire
The British occupation
The kingdom of Iraq and the revolution of 1958
A decade of revolutions and the rise of Saddam
A decade of wars: the Iran-Iraq war and Gulf War I
Sanctions, Gulf War II, and Iraq today
Glossary
Bibliographic essay
Index.