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The second edition of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare includes updated materials on the World Wars, the Cold War, and the Global War on Terror. Of particular interest are the additional perspectives and experiences of non-white, non-American, and non-Europeans that help give agency to these groups and add balance to the book's overall focus on the modern West. This book fills a gap in existing scholarship because no other book has so broadly explored the historiographical and theoretical intersections of the fields of race, gender, and war. It also asks readers to grapple with how and why cultural constructions of identity are transformed by war, as well as how and why race and gender in turn influence the nature of military institutions and conflicts. Readers are guided through a series of case studies, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare does not merely recount a list of "great moments" in race and gender in military history, but instead creates a meta-landscape in which readers can learn to identify for themselves the disjunctures, flaws, and critical synergies in the traditional memory and history of a largely monochrome and white, male-exclusive military experience in the United States and Europe. The second edition's expanded final chapter highlights the fact that these conversations remain relevant in the twenty-first century. Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare is both a synthesis of existing scholarship and a starting point for future study.
David J. Ulbrich, Norwich University; Bobby A. Wintermute, Queens College-CUNY, USA."Traditional courses on military history can easily add fresh materials from [Race and Gender in Modern Western War] in many lectures. Specialists in the new military history will be delighted with the broad sweep in terms of topics and geography. Teachers of civilian history will be amazed at how useful the military experience has been in revealing those issues of race and gender that remain a paramount interest in our time." - D'Ann Campbell, Journal of Military History
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"Bobby Wintermute and David Ulbrich's Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare is a long overdue synthesis of modern historiography on the intersections of war, race, and gender. . . This book shows how cultural constructions of identity within societies and military institutions can be significantly altered by war. It also reveals that how conflicts are fought is often influenced by popular understandings of race and gender." - Mark Folse, Journal fo Military History
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"[...] Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare [ist] ein empfehlenswerter Einstieg in das Thema und die Forschung." - Karen Hagemann, H-Soz-Kult (17.04.2019), http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2019-2-052
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"This work is not merely a trailblazer, but a pathfinder that successfully establishes race and gender as self-sustaining elements of analyzing the causes, nature, and effects of warmaking." - Dennis E. Showalter, author of Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-1918
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"Wintermute and Ulbrich have written an essential primer for anyone interested in the complex synergies between gender, race, and war. Through an extensive use of historical case studies, they build a convincing case for the centrality of social identity in any understanding of military conflict." - Joanna Bourke, author of Wounding the World and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
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"Bobby Wintermute and David Ulbrich authored a seminal work allowing us to understand under-studied fields of the fighter's experience, well beyond the instrumentalized clichés linked to race and gender. Timely and relevantly, the diversity of case studies reflects what is more than a book: in fact, the opening of a research program." - Joseph Henrotin, Ph.D., Research Director, CAPRI, Paris
