Armed with Abundance : Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War /

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In this ms., Meredith Lair seeks to recalibrate the way Americans think about their wars by addressing non-combat experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam. Though only one in four Vietnam veterans served in combat--and likely even fewer--both popular representations and scholarly treatments of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lair, Meredith H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > Military life > History > 20th century.
United States. > Army > History > Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Soldiers > Social life and customs.
Armed Forces > Military life.
Social aspects.
Moral conditions.
Lifestyles.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Military > Vietnam War.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Aspect social.
Style de vie > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects.
Soldiers > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Lifestyles > United States > History > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
United States > Moral conditions > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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