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Iraq in wartime : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance
- Title
- Iraq in wartime : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance / Dina Rizk Khoury.
- Author
- Khoury, Dina Rizk.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- xviii, 281 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Political aspects > Iraq
- War and society > Iraq > History > 20th century
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Social aspects > Iraq
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 > Social aspects > Iraq
- Politics and war > Iraq > History > 20th century
- Iraq > Politics and government > 1979-1991
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 > Political aspects > Iraq
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5098
- ISBN
- 9780521884617 (hardback)
- 0521884616 (hardback)
- 9780521711531 (paperback)
- 0521711533 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2012040130
- OCLC
- 813939232
- Author
- Khoury, Dina Rizk.
- Title
- Iraq in wartime : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance / Dina Rizk Khoury.
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5098