At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2018
410 pages
978-0-8135-8433-1 (ISBN)
Description
The country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life-from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture. At War offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history-ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the U.S. military and why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture.
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David Kieran | Edwin A. Martini
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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04/2018
Rutgers University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: War, the Military, and American Culture
- 1. War and Justice
- 2. American Empire
- 3. Domestic Politics and Antiwar Activism
- 4. The Military- Industrial Complex
- 5. Military Demographics
- 6. Combat
- 7. Veterans andVeterans' Issues
- 8. War, Persecution,and Displacement: U.S. Refugee Policy since 1945
- 9. Race and/in War
- 10. Gender, the Military,and War
- 11. The Embodiment of War: Bodies for, in, and after War
- 12. War and the Environment
- 13. Communications Media, the U.S. Military, and the War Brought Home
- 14. War in Visual Culture
- 15. War and Film
- 16. War and Memory
- 17. Timeline: Major Events in U.S. Military History, 1890-2017
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
