The martial imagination : cultural aspects of American warfare /

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Martial experiences and the mythologies that surround them have profoundly affected the ways in which Americans think of themselves. Wars identify the heroes who help define national character, provide the stories for the grand narratives of belonging and sacrifice, and serve as markers for essentia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bryan, Jimmy L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 144.
Temas:
War and society > United States.
War > Cross-cultural studies.
Violence > Cross-cultural studies.
Guerre et société > États-Unis.
Guerre > Études transculturelles.
Violence > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Violence
War
War and society
United States
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Militarization and violence: Militarizing the menagerie: American zoos from World War II to the early Cold War / John M. Kinder
  • War and trauma: Francis Parkman and the challenge of writing the pain of the other / Kathleen Kennedy
  • Agents of destiny: the Texas Rangers and the dilemma of the conquest narrative / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.
  • Gender and ethnicity: A prison without bars: Charles Lee and the society of gentlemen prisoners during the American Revolution / James J. Schaefer
  • From Maiden to Mambisa: Evangelina Cisneros and the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898 / Belinda Linn Rincón
  • Reconstructing warriors: myth, meaning, and multiculturalism in US Army advertising after Vietnam / Jeremy K. Saucier
  • Imagination and emotion: "Remember the Alamo" to "remember the Maine": the visual ideologies of the Mexican and Spanish-American wars / Bonnie M. Miller
  • Virtuous victims, visceral violence: war and melodrama in American culture / Jonna Eagle
  • On angel's wings: the religious origins of the US Air Force / Timothy J. Cathcart
  • Foretelling and forgetting: The prophecies of Civil War soldiers: a history of the future / Jason Phillips
  • Randall Wallace's we were soldiers: forgetting the American war in Viet Nam / Susan L. Eastman
  • Marshaling the imaginary, imagining the martial: or, what is at stake in the cultural analysis of war? / Amy S. Greenberg.

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