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The record is made up of 1 volume (76 folios). It was created in Feb 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Mesopotamia] AUTTIORTTTES
137
Handbook of Mesopotamia, 4 vols. Admiralty War Staff, Intel
ligence Division. No. 1118. Vol. I.
Malet's Precis. Foreign Office Confidential 6581*.
P elly , L. Report on Tribes. Foreign Office Confidential 8843.
Turkey Annual Reports, 1906-13.
Foreign Office Print, Confidential, Nos. 10939, 10207, 10368,
10059*; Secret, Nos. 1053, 238.
Economic
Official.
Baghdad Railway. Convention oi March 5, 1903.
British Consular Reports on Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul.
Austrian Consular Report on Baghdad, 1912.
Economic Situation in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and Mesopotamian
Markets. P. Z. Cox. Basra, .1916.
Handbook of Mesopotamia. 4 vols.
Memorarulum respecting the Navigation of the Tigris and
Euphrates. London, 1913.
Military Report on Persia. Simla, 1911.
Corrections to Military Report on Persia. Simla, 1914.
Military Report on the Region between Baghdad and the Persian
Gulf. 1911.
Prospects of British Trade in Mesopotamia and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
R. E. Holland and J. H. Wilson, Joint Trade Commissioners.
Delhi, 1917.
Report upon the Conditions anrf Prospects of British Trade in
Mesopotamia. London, 1908.
General.
Ckow, F. E. The Cultivation of Dates in Mesopotamia. British
Consulate, Basra, 1908.
Lanzoni , A. II nuovo Regime Turco e VAvvenire della Mesopo
tamia. (Bollettino della Society Creografica Italiana, Vol. XI.)
Rome, 1912.
Molesworth , Captain F. C. Mesopotamia. London, LUt),
Rohrbach, Paul. Die Bagdadbahn. Berlin, 1902.
W illoocks , Rir W. Tftp Ivfig(itioTi of Mcsopotdwid. Liondon,
1911. ' " . .
X. Y. Z. La Mdsopotamie. (Bulletin de la Society Beige des
Etudes Coloniales. Vol. X\ r III.) Brussels, 1911.
Maps
The map on the scale of 1: 2,000,000, in one sheet, published
by the Royal Geographical Society, is the best general map of
Mesopotamia.
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This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters:
- I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', 'Surface, Coast and River Systems', 'Climate', 'Sanitary Conditions', 'Race and Language' and 'Population';
- II: 'Political History', including 'Chronological Summary', 'Introduction', 'Early period of Turkish Occupation, 1638-1834', 'Later period of Turkish Occupation, 1834-1914', and 'Commercial Developments';
- III: 'Social and Political Conditions', including 'Religious', 'Political', 'Public Education' and 'General Observations';
- IV: 'Economic Conditions', including 'Means of Communication', 'Industry', 'Commerce', 'Finance' and 'General Remarks'.
There is also an appendix which includes tables of 'Exports to Principal Countries from Baghdad', 'Imports from Principal Countries to Baghdad', 'Principal Exports from Basra' and 'Principal Imports to Basra'. This is followed by a section entitled 'Authorities' which is a bibliography of references used for the preparation of the volume. This section is divided into 'Historical' (including 'Confidential Sources'), 'Economic' ('Official' and 'General') and 'Maps'. There is a pocket at the back of the volume to house maps, but there are no maps present.
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Pagination: The volume contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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