Name: Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War (en Inglés)
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Author: Lair, Meredith H.
ISBN: 9781469619033

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Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Meredith H. Lair

Editorial

University of North Carolina Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.1x15.5x2.3 cm

Peso

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781469619033

Categorías

Vietnam
Estados unidos de américa
C. 1955-c. 1975 (época de la guerra de vietnam)
Cultura popular
Historia militar: conflictos posteriores a la segunda guerra mundial

Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War (en Inglés)

Meredith H. Lair (Autor) · University of North Carolina Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 and certainly more palatable. The result was dozens of overbuilt bases in South Vietnam that grew more elaborate as the war dragged on. Relying on memoirs, military documents, and G.I. newspapers, Lair finds that consumption and satiety, rather than privation and sacrifice, defined most soldiers' Vietnam deployments. Abundance quarantined the U.S. occupation force from the impoverished people it ostensibly had come to liberate, undermining efforts to win Vietnamese "hearts and minds" and burdening veterans with disappointment that their wartime service did not measure up to public expectations. With an epilogue that finds a similar paradigm at work in Iraq, Armed with Abundance offers a unique and provocative perspective on modern American warfare.