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Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq,1968-89 (Hardcover)
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Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq,1968-89 (Hardcover)
Series: St Antony's Series
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This book is about the metamorphosis of national ideology in
Ba'thist Iraq. By "ideology" the reference is to a very broad sense
of the term, closer to a "collection of political
proposals...somewhat intellectualistic" than to a comprehensive
world view or an interpretation of history fully, systematically
and rigorously thought out, presented and elaborated. Speeches by
leading politicans, historiography and the writings of
intellectuals in regard to Iraq's political community, are
considered here as ideology, even if these ideas do not constitute
a complete "politico-social programme".;This book is an attempt to
follow and analyze the change in the Ba'th party's perception and
representation of Iraq as a political community. By resurrecting
and imbuing with great national significance elements previously
rejected, ignored or downplayed in Ba'th ideology such as
territory, race and local pre-Islamic and pre-Arab historical
epochs, the Ba'th regime of Iraq has sought to re-shape the
collective identification of its countrymen. In several cases, this
reshaping took the form of re-enforcing and fully legitimizing an
already existing identification that hitherto the party had looked
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