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. Basûr (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.