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UNINA9910453630303321 |
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Titolo |
Caught in crossfire [[electronic resource] ] : civilians in conflicts in the Middle East / / edited by P.R. Kumaraswamy |
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ISBN |
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0-86372-532-5 |
1-281-78597-0 |
9786611785970 |
1-4356-7286-0 |
0-86372-357-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Durham Middle East monographs |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civilian war casualties - Middle East |
War and society - Middle East |
Civil-military relations - Middle East |
Arab-Israeli conflict - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Arab and Jewish Civilians in the 1948 Palestine War; 2 Israeli Civilians in the 1967 Six-Day War; 3 Israeli Civilians during the 1973 Yom Kippur War; 4 The Pathologies of Protracted and Displaced Collective Violence in Lebanon; 5 Revolution in Iran, 1979 - The Establishment of an Islamic State; 6 The Al-Aqsa Intifada: Snapshots from the Field; 7 Kuwait: Never Before, Never Again; 8 Iraqi Civilians under the 1990-2003 Sanctions; 9 Iraq: The Tragedy and Trauma of Humiliation; Chronology; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examining the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict, Lebanese civil war and the periodic upsurges of inter-state and internal tensions in the Gulf region, this book looks at how civilians are at the forefront of military conflicts and violence in the Middle East. The unsung heroes and real victims of wars in the Middle East are the civilian populations. Quickly forgotten, they have all too frequently been forced to endure the |
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