Full Description
This volume provides the most expansive survey to date of the field of war and society, offering a magisterial overview of the American experience of war from the colonial era to the War on Terror. It brings together leading scholars to examine how societies go to war, experience it, and invest it with meaning. Those ideas unfold across three thematic sections entitled 'War Times,' 'War Societies,' and 'War Meanings.' The essays interrogate the symbiotic relationship between warfare and the armed forces on one side, and broader trends in political, social, cultural, and economic life on the other. They consider the radiating impact of war on individuals, communities, culture, and politics - and conversely, the projection of social patterns onto the military and wartime life. Across three sections, thirty essays, and a roundtable discussion, the volume illuminates the questions, methodologies, and sources that exemplify war and society scholarship at its very best.
Contents
Introduction roundtable: 'what is war and society?'; Conveners Andrew J. Huebner and Jennifer D. Keene; Panelists Beth Bailey, Christopher Capozzola, Lesley J. Gordon, John W. Hall, Adriane D. Lentz-Smith, Susannah J. Ural and Kara Dixon Vuic; Reflection: Brian McAllister Linn; Part I. War Times: 1. 'Imperial collisions: war times and societies in colonial America' Ricardo A. Herrera; 2. 'Revolutionary wars for a revolutionary society' Benjamin L. Carp; 3. 'Indigenous societies and the US-Mexican war' Brian DeLay; 4. 'A stirring at Appomattox: war and society and the American civil war' Christopher Phillips; 5. 'The American war on indigenous society, 1860-1900' Kevin Waite; 6. 'Making a militarized empire: 1898 and beyond' Oli Charbonneau; 7. 'World War I: death, American society, and the sinking of the SS Tuscania' Steven Trout; 8. 'Rethinking liberation in World War II' Mary Louise Roberts; 9. 'Crossroads for change: the Korean war, desegregation, and civil-military relations' William A. Taylor; 10. 'The cold war: war 'as' society?' Laura McEnaney; 11. 'Facing frustration and failure: the American experience in Vietnam' Gregory A. Daddis; 12. ''A perpetual war on terror': debating policy, strategy, and service in the twenty-first century' David Kieran; 13. 'Reflection: whose wartime?' Mary L. Dudziak; Part II. War Societies: 14. 'American women at war' Heather Marie Stur; 15. 'The uneasy relationship between capitalism and war' Mark R. Wilson; 16. 'US Veterans' health care: distributing dollars, opening institutions, building systems' Jessica L. Adler; 17. 'The soldiers' war in American history' Wayne E. Lee; 18. 'Race-ing war and society' Charissa Threat; 19. 'Through the looking glass: reflections on conscription in the United States' Amy Rutenberg; 20. 'War and society and nature' Lisa M. Brady; 21. 'What is a war society? Reflections on American militarization' Jennifer Mittelstadt; Part III. War Meanings: 22. 'Religion and war' Jonathan H. Ebel; 23. 'An answer to their restlessness: civil war veteran migration and the frontier' Kurt Hackemer; 24. 'The problem of the disabled veteran' John Kinder; 25. 'Masculinity, military systems, and warfighting' Lorien Foote; 26. 'Love in war' Susan L. Carruthers; 27. 'The lost cause and memory' Barbara A. Gannon; 28. 'When war creates life: race, nationality, and belonging for mixed-race children born of war' Sabrina Thomas; 29. 'The beauty and the horror: war and creativity' Pearl James and Anika Jensen; 30. 'Reflections on the meaning of war' Michael S. Neiberg.
