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War in the Gulf, 1990-91 : the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications /
For most Americans, the war against Iraq lingers in memory as a vast morality play, a drama offering ready made heroes and villains: a glowering dictator in military uniform, hapless Kuwaiti refugees with tales of persecution, plucky pilots with high-tech wizardry, and a defiant American president,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
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2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For most Americans, the war against Iraq lingers in memory as a vast morality play, a drama offering ready made heroes and villains: a glowering dictator in military uniform, hapless Kuwaiti refugees with tales of persecution, plucky pilots with high-tech wizardry, and a defiant American president, ringing Churchillian as he drew a line in the sand. But this characterization of the war is greatly oversimplified, a one-dimensional portrait, lacking in context and nuance. In War in the Gulf, 1990 91, eminent scholars Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb paint a very different picture, one that brin. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 1997. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (299 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198024545 0198024541 019534877X 9780195348774 1280835095 9781280835094 9786610835096 6610835098 0199923868 9780199923861 |