Bodies for battle : US Army physical culture and systematic training, 1885-1957 /

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"War is physical. In combat, fortune favors the soldier in better condition. Superior conditioning enables troops to fight longer and harder, to move farther and faster, to carry heavier loads and endure greater hardship. These relative advantages can be the difference between life and death, v...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gatzemeyer, Garrett (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: La Vergne : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Series:Modern war studies.
Subjects:
United States. > Army > Physical training > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > Physical training > History > 20th century.
United States. > Army
1800-1999
Physical education and training, Military > History > 19th century.
Physical education and training, Military > History > 20th century.
Physical fitness > United States > History.
Entraînement physique militaire > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Entraînement physique militaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Armed Forces > Physical training
Physical education and training, Military
Physical fitness
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Modern War, Modern Fitness
  • Chapter One. Bodies and Battlefields: Contextualizing Martial Fitness for Modern War
  • Chapter Two. Origins of a US Army Physical Culture, 1885-1916
  • Chapter Three. The US Army's Battle of the Systems, 1914-1920
  • Chapter Four. Reversion, Disaggregation, and ""Prehabilitation, "" 1919-1940
  • Photo Gallery
  • Chapter Five. Physical Cultures for Total War, 1936-1946
  • Chapter Six. Hard Bodies for a Cold War: Conditioning and Prehabilitation, 1945-1957
  • Conclusion. Fashioning that ""Certain Strength of Body and Soul, "" 1885-1957
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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