From the Book - Fourth edition.
The land and people of modern Iraq
The British mandate, 1920-1932
The erosion of the British legacy, 1932-1945
The end of the monarchy, 1946-1958
The Arab nationalists in power, 1963-1968
The era of Ba'th Party rule, 1968-1979
The Saddam Husain regime, 1979-1989
The Saddam Husain regime, 1990-2003
The US attempt at nation-building in Iraq, 2003-2006
The stabilization and destabilization of Iraq under Maliki, 2007-2014
Iraq and the challenge of the Islamic State, 2014-2016
Economic, social, and cultural change in post-2003 Iraq - Epilogue: The future of Iraq