Iraq in wartime [electronic resource] : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance / Dina Rizk Khoury.
2013
DS79.7 .K46 2013
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Iraq in wartime [electronic resource] : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance / Dina Rizk Khoury.
Author
Khoury, Dina Rizk.
ISBN
9780521884617
9780521711531
9781107306226 (electronic book)
9780521711531
9781107306226 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 281 p. : ill., maps.
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DS79.7 .K46 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
956.7044
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. A brief history of Iraq's wars under the Ba'th; 3. The internal front: making the war routine; 4. Battle fronts: war and insurgency; 5. Things fall apart: the First Gulf War and its aftermath; 6. War's citizens, war's families; 7. Memory for the future: soldiering and the war experience; 8. Commemorating the dead; 9. Postscript.