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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [203] (212/568)
The record is made up of 1 volume (282 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac. 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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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
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Exports
1910-11 1911-12 1912-13
Total Value of Exports £310,042 £422,249 £330,555
Percentage of Percentage of Percentage of
Total Exports, Total Exports, Total Exports,
1910-11 1911-12 1912-13
United Kingdom . . 25 49 36
India .... 18 12 13
Germany ... 6 5 2
Turkey .... 18 9 15
Koweit .... 6 4 3
Hong-Kong ... 5 19 11
Other Countries . . 22 2 20
The United Kingdom's predominance in the markets of Meso
potamia and Arabistan was based principally on the import of cotton
goods. Of secondary imports from this country may be mentioned
woollens, machinery (to Baghdad), coffee (from Brazil), and copper.
In exports the United Kingdom took chiefly wool and mohair, skins
and hides, cereals, dates, gum tragacanth, and occasionally opium.
Import trade from India was chiefly in coarse cotton goods, cotton
yarns, gunnies, tea, and silk. In the two years preceding the war
Indian timber was driven from the Baghdad market by cheap Russian
woods. It seems that a considerable part of the manufactured goods
(including refined sugar) that were entered as imported from India
were of European continental origin. In exports India took dates,
ghl, horses, occasionally opium, and small quantities of galls, hides
and skins, wool, &c. Since the British occupation of Irak the Indian
piece-goods trade in southern Mesopotamia has acquired a stronger
position.
Germany had a miscellaneous trade in cheap manufactured goods,
and imported also sugar, chemical dyes, and alcohol. Her consider
able and growing share in the carrying trade to Basra consisted
largely in the shipping of Belgian, Austro-Hungarian, and other
foreign goods. (See further below, pp. 204-5.) Germany took
considerable proportions of the cereals (which before the war were
shipped almost wholly by German steamers), of the galls, and of the
hides and skins exported from the country. Among other exports
to Germany were intestines (for sausage-making), and a small per
centage of the Mesopotamian wool.
Austria-Hungary had a large share in the sugar trade, and sent
also fancy textiles, hardware, glassware, chinaware, paper, and other
kinds of cheap manufactured goods. Some hides and skins, grain,
galls, &c., went to Trieste.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia, for the most part as they were before the First World War.
The volume includes a note on official use, a title page and 'Note'. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following chapters and sections:
- Chapter 1: Boundaries and Physical Features;
- Chapter 2: Climate;
- Chapter 3: Minerals;
- Chapter 4: Fauna and Flora;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene;
- Chapter 6: History;
- Chapter 7: Inhabitants;
- Chapter 8: Religions;
- Chapter 9: Administration;
- Chapter 10: Irrigation of Irak [Iraq];
- Chapter 11: Agriculture and Land Tenure;
- Chapter 12: Commerce and Industry;
- Chapter 13: Currency, Weights, and Measures;
- Chapter 14: Communications and Transport;
- Vocabularies;
- Index.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (282 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in numbered chapters. There is a contents page and an alphabetically arranged index.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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'. of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:556, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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