Bøger af Washington DC) Khoury

Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule. Drawing on Ba'thist state and party documents as well as oral interviews with soldiers and intellectuals, this book tells a multilayered story of a society where war had become the norm.

Spanning three centuries of Ottoman history, this book offers an interpretation of relations between the central Ottoman Empire and provincial Iraqi society in the early modern period.