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Globalization and empire : the U.S. invasion of Iraq, free markets, and the twilight of democracy
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- Creator
- Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim
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- Language
- English
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006]
- ©2006
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- xiii, 387 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780817315016, 0817315012
- OCLC
- ocm61353089
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-366) and index.
- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction: globalization, empire, and the productions of violence -- "The whole operation of deception": reconstructing President Bush's rhetoric of weapons of mass destruction -- War rhetorics: the national security strategy of the United States and President Bush's globalization-through-benevolent-empire -- "It is accelerating": the rhetorics of globalization and the dilemmas of U.S. power -- Privatizing the empire: globalizing crony capitalism and the rhetoric of "Renewal in Iraq" -- Conclusion: rhetorical integrity and the twilight of democracy -- Appendix: sources of information for scholars and empowerment for activists -- Notes -- Index