Memories of State : Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq
Eric. Davis
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (401 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE FORMATION OF THE IRAQI INTELLIGENTSIA AND MODERN HISTORICAL MEMORY; 3. NATIONALISM, MEMORY, AND THE DECLINE OF THE MONARCHICAL STATE; 4. MEMORY, THE INTELLIGENTSIA, AND THE ANTINOMIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY, 1945-1958; 5. THE CRUCIBLE: THE JULY 14, 1958 REVOLUTION AND THE STRUGGLE OVER HISTORICAL MEMORY; 6. MEMORIES OF STATE ASCENDANT, 1968-1979; 7. MEMORIES OF STATE IN DECLINE, 1979-1990; 8. MEMORIES OF STATE AND THE ARTS OF RESISTANCE; 9. MEMORIES OF STATE OR MEMORIES OF THE PEOPLE?: IRAQ FOLLOWING THE GULF WAR. - 10. CONCLUSIONAppendix. Charter 91; Notes; Glossary; A; B; D; E; F; H; I; J; M; N; R; Q; S; T; Z; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. - Despite being securely entrenched in power and having suppressed all political opposition, the Ba'thist regime that ruled Iraq from 1968 to 2003 still felt the need to engage in a massive rewriting of the nation's history and cultural heritage-in both its high and popular forms. As this book makes clear, the regime's effort to restructure understandings of the past was an attempt to expunge a powerful tendency in the Iraqi nationalist movement that advocated cultural pluralism, political participation, and social justice. Based on interviews with Iraqi intellectuals under the regime of Saddam
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| Emner | Arab nationalism - Iraq
Historiography - Iraq Iraq - Politics and government Political culture - Iraq Vis mer... Politics and culture - Iraq
Politics and literature - Iraq Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1958-. Civilian population Cultural identity Government - Asia Government - Non-U.S. History Law, Politics & Government Political leaders Politics irak politikk historie kollektiv identitet kultur nasjonalisme historiografi |
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| ISBN | 0520235452. - 0520235460
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