Title Iraq in Wartime : Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance / Dina Rizk Khoury

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages) 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 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 Summary Traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule Notes Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed 15 May 2013) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index SUBJECT Vereinte Nationen gnd Subject Politics and war -- Iraq -- History -- 20th century War and society -- Iraq -- History -- 20th century Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 -- Political aspects -- Iraq Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 -- Social aspects -- Iraq Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Political aspects -- Iraq Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Social aspects -- Iraq HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. War -- Economic aspects Buddhism and politics Politics and government Politics and war Social aspects War and society Golfkrieg. Sanktion Auswirkung Alltag Gesellschaft SUBJECT Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1979-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93003204 Subject Iraq Irak Genre/Form dissertations. History Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139025713 1139025716 9780521884617 0521884616 9781107313972 110731397X 9781299838413 1299838413 9781107306226 1107306221

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