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...pass, it is likely to have less to do with the ideas of neo-imperialists than with the emergence of an authentic Iraqi nationalism forged in opposition to the occupation. Such an opposition is precisely what was created in Iraq under the British League of Nations mandate in the 1920s and '30s, though few policymakers seem to have bothered to study the mandate's lessons. Toby Dodge of Britain's Warwick University-and author of Inventing Iraq, a superb recent book on the mandate-points out the ways in which coalition authorities today are making the same mistakes...
...pass, it is likely to have less to do with the ideas of neo-imperialists than with the emergence of an authentic Iraqi nationalism forged in opposition to the occupation. Such an opposition is precisely what was created in Iraq under the British League of Nations mandate in the 1920s and '30s, though few policymakers seem to have bothered to study the mandate's lessons. Toby Dodge of Britain's Warwick University?and author of Inventing Iraq, a superb recent book on the mandate?points out the ways in which coalition authorities today are making the same mistakes...
...Chanel, Lagerfeld is carrying on the athletic tradition that Coco Chanel began in the 1920s. The latest addition for spring is a golf line in the house's classic signature black and white. Soon, high fashion may just be par for the course...
...uniform from the 1920s can be worth up to $1,000. "Once an airline introduces a new uniform, the old ones become collectors' items because they will never come back," says Muskiet...
Timing is everything. In the spring of 2003, Niall Ferguson was known among historians as an astonishingly prolific scholar who had published important books on the German hyperinflation of the 1920s, the House of Rothschild and World War I, and was the impresario of a school of "counterfactual" writers who took seriously the amateur historian's favorite question: What would have happened...