Dina Rizk Khoury

Iraq in Wartime

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780521884617
• ISBN-10: 0521884616
• Artikelnr.: 36956298

Autorenporträt

Dina Rizk Khoury is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. Since 2005, she has been writing on the contemporary history of Iraq, particularly on violence, sectarian politics, and war and memory. She is the author of State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Rezensionen

'Dina Rizk Khoury's book on Iraqis and how they experienced the three Gulf wars: Iran-Iraq, Kuwait, and the end of Saddam, is equally evocative and surprising.' Mary Ann Tétreault, Middle East Media and Book Reviews (membr.uwm.edu/)