David McDowall is an author specializing in Middle Eastern affairs.

Glossary of Abbreviations
Glossary of Middle Eastern terms
Foreword
Ch 1. Introduction: Kurdish identity and social formation
Book I THE KURDS IN THE AGE OF TRIBE AND EMPIRE
Ch. 2. Kurdistan before the nineteenth century
Ch. 3. Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800-1850
Ch. 4. Ottoman Kurdistan, 1850-1908
Ch. 5. The Qajars and the Kurds
Ch. 6. Revolution, nationalism and war, 1900-1918
Book II INCORPORATING THE KURDS
Ch. 7. Redrawing the map: the partition of Ottoman Kurdistan
Ch. 8. The Kurds, Britain and Iraq
Ch. 9. Incorporating Turkey's Kurds

Book III ROJHILAT (EAST): NATIONALISM IN IRAN
Ch. 10. The Kurds under Reza Shah
Ch. 11. Tribe or ethnicity? The Mahabad Republic
Ch. 12. Iran: Creating a national movement
Ch. 13. Subjects of the Shi'i republic

Book IV BASÛR (SOUTH): NATIONALISM IN IRAQ
Ch. 14. The birth of the national movement under Hashemite rule
Ch. 15. The Kurds in revolutionary Iraq
Ch. 16. The Kurds under the Ba'th, 1968- 1975
Ch. 17. The road to genocide, 1975-1988
Ch. 18. Uprising and self-rule

Book V BAKUR (NORTH): NATIONALISM IN TURKEY
Ch. 19. The Kurdish national revival in Turkey, 1946-1979
Ch.20. The PKK and the mass movement
Book VI ROJAVA (WEST): NATIONALISM IN SYRIA
Ch.21. Living apart in French and independent Syria
Book VII INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE FIRST TWO DECADES
Ch. 22. Iran's Kurds: no sign of the dawn
Ch. 23. Syria's Kurds: coming of age in civil war
Ch. 24. Turkey's Kurds: the search for resolution
Ch. 25. Iraq's Kurds: from dream to disillusionment
Book VIII DIASPORA KURDS
Ch. 26. The Kurds in exile: building the nation
AFTERWORD
Appendix 1. The Treaty of Sèvres
Appendix 2. The Kurds in Lebanon
Appendix 3. The Kurds of the Caucasus