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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryan, Jimmy L.

Series:

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 144.

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 144

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Cross-cultural studies.

Violence.

War and society--United States.

War and society.

War--Cross-cultural studies.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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 diverse fields in

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 Rinc©on

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4619-4455-4

1-62349-090-1

OCLC:

859382187