UID:
almafu_9959235887302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (314 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-88-9313-430-8
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1-4696-1903-2
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1-4696-0252-0
Inhalt:
Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other ""comforts"" share the frame with combat.To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to insulate soldiers--and, by extension, the American public--from boredom and deprivation, making the project of war perhaps easier
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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A war refined : reframing the narrative of the Vietnam War -- Same side, different wars: grunts and REMFs in Vietnam -- This place just isn't John Wayne: U.S. military bases in Vietnam -- Total war on boredom: the U.S. military's recreation program in Vietnam -- The things they bought: G.I. consumerism in Vietnam -- War zone wonderland: the strange world of "the Nam" -- From Vietnam to Iraq: reimagining the American way of war.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8078-3481-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8078-6918-X
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=825146
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