Auteur: D. K. Fieldhouse

The term ‘Fertile Crescent’ is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq …

In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid …

In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid …

Wallace Lyon was Provincial Administrator and Administrative Inspector in northern Iraq – an area known unofficially as ‘Kurdistan’ – between 1918 and 1945. His job was to administer what at the time …