Gertrude Bell and Iraq

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1: Paul Collins and Charles Tripp: IntroductionPart I: Gertrude Bell and the Ottoman Empire2: Peter Sluglett: Gertrude Bell and the Ottoman EmpirePart II: Gertrude Bell and Archaeology3: Mark P. C. Jackson: A Critical Examination of Gertrude Bell's Contribution to Archaeological Research in Central Asia Minor4: Lisa Cooper: 'Better than any ruined site in the world' - Gertrude Bell and the Ancient City of Assur5: Rosalind Wade Haddon: What Gertrude Bell did for Islamic ArchaeologyPart III: Gertrude Bell - A Woman in a Man's World6: Helen Berry: Gertrude Bell - Pioneer, Anti-Suffragist, Feminist Icon?7: Tamara Chalabi: Fragments of a Mirror: The Writing of Gertrude BellPart IV: Gertrude Bell and the Making of the Iraqi State8: Myriam Yakoubi: Gertrude Bell's Perception of Faisal I of Iraq and the Anglo-Arab Romance9: Saad B. Eskander: Gertrude Bell and the Formation of the Iraqi State: The Kurdish DimensionPart V: Gertrude Bell and Iraqi Heritage10: Magnus T. Bernhardsson: Gertrude Bell and the Antiquities Law of Iraq11: Ian Johnson: Gertrude Bell and the Evolution of the Library Tradition in Iraq12: Lamia Al-Gailani Werr: Gertrude Bell in the Archive of the Iraq MuseumAppendix13: Janet E Courtney (née Hogarth) introduced by Moayad Hanoush: In Memoriam: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (July 14, 1868 - July 12, 1926)Index

This book marks a new quality in Gertrude Bell scholarship. The majority of the contributors, recruited from the conference, are an inspiring group of experts. The editors -- Paul Collins and Charles Tripp, curator at the Ashmolean Museum, professor of politics at SOAS and fellow of the British Academy, respectively -- set the high standards of the book in their Introduction. This finely written, concise and contextualised biography of Gertrude Bell signals the peculiar problems about her legacy, beginning with her background and social status, and the privileges she often had no qualms resorting to.