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Iraq in Wartime : Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance /
Traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.