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Autore: | Khoury Dina Rizk |
Titolo: | Iraq in wartime : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance / / Dina Rizk Khoury, the George Washington University, Washington, DC [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 956.7044 |
Soggetto topico: | Politics and war - Iraq - History - 20th century |
War and society - Iraq - History - 20th century | |
Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 - Political aspects - Iraq | |
Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 - Social aspects - Iraq | |
Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Political aspects - Iraq | |
Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Social aspects - Iraq | |
Soggetto geografico: | Iraq Politics and government 1979-1991 |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Iraq's wars under the Baʻth -- 3. The internal front: making the war routine -- 4. Battlefronts: war and insurgency -- 5. Things fall apart: --6. War's citizens, war's families -- 7. Memory for the future -- 8. Commemorating the dead -- 9. Postscript. |
Sommario/riassunto: | When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that war was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance and examines the Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture. Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has become the norm. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Iraq in wartime |
ISBN: | 1-107-30114-9 |
1-107-31397-X | |
1-107-30622-1 | |
1-107-30842-9 | |
1-139-02571-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910786131803321 |
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