Glob alization and empire
Subtitle: the U.S. invasion of Iraq, free markets, and the twilight of democracy
By: Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim.
Contributors: Stengrim, Laura Ann.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780817315016
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.; Globalization -- Political aspects -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: List of abbreviations and acronyms; title: Introduction: globalization, empire, and the productions of violence; title: "The whole operation of deception": reconstructing President Bush's rhetoric of weapons of mass destruction; title: War rhetorics: the national security strategy of the United States and President Bush's globalization-through-benevolent-empire; title: "It is accelerating": the rhetorics of globalization and the dilemmas of U.S. power; title: Privatizing the empire: globalizing crony capitalism and the rhetoric of "Renewal in Iraq"; title: Conclusion: rhetorical integrity and the twilight of democracy; title: Appendix: sources of information for scholars and empowerment for activists; title: Notes; title: Index.