The American Culture of War: A History of US Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom
- ISBN-10
- 1135862907
- ISBN-13
- 9781135862909
- Series
- The American Culture of War
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 560
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-12-21
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Adrian R. Lewis
Description
The American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941. Timely, incisive, and comprehensive, it is a unique and invaluable survey of over sixty years of American military history.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2007
- 538 pages
- Paperback
- Taylor & Francis
Similar books
-
The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom
By Adrian R. LewisThe American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941: the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, and the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars.
-
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture
By Alice Fahs, Joan WaughThis volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings o
-
The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II
By Lewis A. Erenberg, Susan E. HirschExploring government censorship of war photography, the revision of immigration laws, Hollywood moviemaking, swing music, and popular magazines, these essays reveal the creation of a new national identity that was pluralistic, but also ...
-
At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
By David Kieran, Edwin A. MartiniAt 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 ...
-
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
By Andrew HartmanGary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (1997; New York: Vintage Books, 2000). Lisa Symcox, Whose History? The Struggle for National Standards in American ...
-
In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
By David Campbell2 (1999): 29–37, and David Rieff's “Were Sanctions Right,” New York Times, July 27, 2003, https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/ article/170/41951.html. Rieff's article includes appalling quotations from Clinton-era officials ...
-
Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II
By Thomas Patrick DohertyThis revised edition includes new sections exploring the recent resurgence of interest in World War II films, including Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line.
-
Is There a Culture War?: A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life
By Alan Wolfe, James Davison HunterIn the wake of a bitter presidential campaign and in the face of numerous divisive policy questions, many Americans wonder if their country has split in two. People are passionately...
-
Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America
By James Davison HunterIt was both fun and stimulating in this regard to work with John Rice, James Hawdon, James Tucker, Beth Schwieger, Tracy Fessenden, Karen Marsh, Jim Nolan, and Leslie Gunning. Several colleagues read all of the manuscript in various ...
-
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
By John W. DowerA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces ...