Maps & Sources * Acknowledgements * Foreword * Introduction: Kurdish Identity and Social Formation * The Kurds in the Age of Tribe and Empire * Kurdistan before the Nineteenth Century * Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800-1850 * Ottoman Kurdistan 1850-1914 * The Qajars and the Kurds * Revolution, Nationalism and War, 1908-1918 * Incorporating the Kurds * Redrawing the Map: The Partition of Ottoman Kurdistan * The Kurds, Britain and Iraq * Incorporating Turkey's Kurds * The Kurds under Reza Shah * Ethno-nationalism in Iran * Tribe or Ethnicity? The Mahabad Republic * Iran: Creating a National Movement * Subjects of the Shi'i Republic * Ethno-nationalism in Iraq * The Birth of a Nationalist Movemenr under Hashemite Rule * The Kurds in Revolutionary Iraq * The Kurds under the Baath, 1968-1975 * The Road to Genocide, 1975-1988 * Uprising and Self-rule * Ethno-nationalism in Turley * The Kurdish National Revival in Turkey, 1946-1979 * The PKK and the Mass Movement * Afterword: Retrospect and Prospect * Postcript * Appendix: The Treaty of Segrave;vres * Index.