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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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text file |
| Note |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed 15 May 2013). |
| Summary |
Traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule. |
| Contents |
Cover; Cover; Iraq in Wartime; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations, Maps, and Table; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations and Transliteration; 1 Introduction; War as Governance; The War Experience and Memory; Sources and Methodology; Government Documents; Interviews; 2 Iraq's Wars under the Ba'th; The Iran-Iraq War; The First Gulf War and the UN-imposed Embargo; Conclusion; 3 The Internal Front: Making War Routine; Managing the War; The Internal Front; Managing the War Story; Managing the Social Repercussions of the War: Cohabiting and Perpetuating Ties. |
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Managing Dissent and DesertionThe General Federation of Iraqi Women; Conclusion; 4 Battlefronts: War and Insurgency; Conscripts in an "Ideological Army"; The Directorate of Political Guidance; "I Have Become a Hero Despite Myself": Reward, Survival, and Punishment; Prisoners of War: Ideology, Conversion, and Betrayal; Managing Territories of War and Insurgency; Conclusion; 5 Things Fall Apart; The Mother of All Battles and the End of Days; The Intifada and its Aftermath in the South; Between Charity and Mercy; Conclusion; 6 War's Citizens, War's Families; Defining Martyrdom. |
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Regulating FamiliesConclusion; 7 Memory for the Future; The Iconography of the War Experience; The Language of the War Experience; Remembrance and the War Experience; Conclusion; 8 Commemorating the Dead; The Invention of the Cult of Martyrs; Commemorating the Heroes of Qadisiyat Saddam; Commemorating the Victims of the Mother of All Battles; Conclusion; 9 Postscript; Appendix I Distribution in Percentage of Ba'th Party Members, "Friends of Saddam," and Martyrs in Fifteen Iraqi Provinces, 1998-1999. |
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Appendix II Percentage of Ba'th Party Membership among Matriculating Students (Sixth Secondary) in Ten Iraqi Provinces, 1987-1988Appendix III Report Issued by Ali Hasan al-Majid, Head of the Northern Bureau of the Ba'th Party to the General Secretariat, August 1987; Sources and Bibliography; Primary Sources; Interviews; Bibliography; Electronic Resources; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United Nations. |
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Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) |
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Persian Gulf War (1991) |
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United Nations. |
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Politics and war -- Iraq -- History -- 20th century.
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Politics and war. |
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Iraq. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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War and society -- Iraq -- History -- 20th century.
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War and society. |
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Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1979-1991.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1979-1991 |
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Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 -- Political aspects -- Iraq.
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Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 -- Social aspects -- Iraq.
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Political aspects -- Iraq.
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Social aspects -- Iraq.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780521884617 |
| ISBN |
9781139025713 (electronic book) |
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1139025716 (electronic book) |
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9780521884617 (hardback) |
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0521884616 (hardback) |
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9781107313972 (electronic book) |
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110731397X (electronic book) |
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9781299838413 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299838413 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780521711531 |
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0521711533 |
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9781107306226 |
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1107306221 |
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