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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [207] (216/568)
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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COMMEKCE AND INDUSTRY
Among the most important European firms established in the
country before the war were :
Lynch & Co. (merchants, exporters and importers, shipping
agents; Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company).
Gray, Mackenzie & Co. (general and shipping agents, merchants
and importers).
Strick, Scott & Co. (general and shipping agents, merchants and
importers).
Blockey, Cree & Co. (agents).
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
MacAndrews, Forbes & Co. (American ; exporters of liquorice).
Wonckhaus (German ; agents for the Ham burg-Amerika line).
Since the British occupation of Irak several Bombay firms have
opened branches in the country.
In 1917 the following banks had branches in Irak :
The Imperial Ottoman Bank.
The Imperial Bank of Persia (also in Arabistan).
The Eastern Bank (with charge of the funds of the civil adminis
tration).
Before the war the Deutsche Orient Bank had a branch at
Baghdad, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank branches at Diarbekr and
Mosul.
Principal Imports
The accurate analysis of imports is made impossible not only by
the general unreliability of the estimates in the Trade Reports, but
also by the fact that the country to which imported goods are
ascribed in the Reports is by no means always the country of their
origin. Especially, as has been mentioned above, a considerable part
of the manufactured ' Indian' imports to Mesopotamia and Arabi
stan came from European continental countries by way of re-export
from Bombay or Karachi.
Textiles, Y$c.
Cotton Fabrics. —The value of cotton goods imported to Baghdad
(about half of which probably went on to Persia) was between
£1,340,000 and ,£1,400,000, or about 44 per cent, of the total value
of the foreign imports of Baghdad exclusive of railway material.
The import of cotton goods at Basra (mostly for Baghdad) was in
about the same proportion. In Arabistan the value of the cotton
tissues imported was about £180,000-214,000, or about 31 per cent, of
the .whole .foreign import trade ; at Diarbekr it was about £125,000,
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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.
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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'
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- 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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