Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction / Paul Collins and Charles Tripp
  • Part I: Gertrude Bell and the Ottoman Empire
  • 2. Gertrude Bell and the Ottoman Empire / Peter Sluglett
  • Part II: Gertrude Bell and archaeology
  • 3. A critical examination of Gertrude Bell's contribution to archaeological research in central Asia Minor / Mark P. C. Jackson
  • 4. 'Better than any ruined site in the world': Gertrude Bell and the ancient city of Assur / Lisa Cooper
  • 5. What Gertrude Bell did for Islamic archaeology / Rosalind Wade Haddon
  • Part III: Gertrude Bell
  • a woman in a man's world
  • 6. Gertrude Bell: pioneer, anti-suffragist, feminist icon? / Helen Berry
  • 7. Fragments of a mirror: the writing of Gertrude Bell / Tamara Chalabi
  • Part IV: Gertrude Bell and the making of the Iraqi state
  • 8. Gertrude Bell's perception of Faisal I of Iraq and the Anglo-Arab romance / Myriam Yakoubi
  • 9. Gertrude Bell and the formation of the Iraqi state: the Kurdish dimension / Saad B. Eskander
  • Part V: Gertrude Bell and Iraqi heritage
  • 10. Gertrude Bell and the antiquities law of Iraq / Magnus T. Bernhardsson
  • 11. Gertrude Bell and the evolution of the library tradition in Iraq / Ian Johnson
  • 12. Gertrude Bell in the Archive of the Iraq Museum / Lamia al-Gailani Werr
  • Appendix: A tribute to Gertrude Bell
  • 'In memoriam: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (14 July 1868-12 July 1926)' / Janet E. Courtney (née Hogarth), introduced by Moayad Hanoush.