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Title The martial imagination : cultural aspects of American warfare / edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2013.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; number 144
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 144.
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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 essential moments of transformation. However, only in the last several years have scholars begun using the term "cultural history of American warfare" to identify the study of how public discourse formulates these defining myths and narratives. This volume brings together scholarship from diver.
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Subject War and society -- United States.
War and society.
United States.
War -- Cross-cultural studies.
War.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Violence -- Cross-cultural studies.
Violence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bryan, Jimmy L.
Other Form: Print version: Martial imagination. First edition 9781623490201 (DLC) 2013008853 (OCoLC)830992668
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