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Bodies for battle : US Army physical culture and systematic training, 1885-1957
- Title
- Bodies for battle : US Army physical culture and systematic training, 1885-1957 / Garrett Gatzemeyer.
- Author
- Gatzemeyer, Garrett
- Publication
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 329 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "War is physical. In combat, fortune favors the soldier in better condition. Superior conditioning enables troops to fight longer and harder, to move farther and faster, to carry heavier loads and endure greater hardship. These relative advantages can be the difference between life and death, victory and defeat. In Bodies for Battle, Garrett Gatzemeyer investigates the creation and evolution of an official U.S. Army physical culture during the period when the most significant changes were made: 1885 to 1957. Using archival documents, training manuals, and professional journals serving military officers and physical educators, Gatzemeyer shows how, beginning in the late nineteenth century, officers drew on contemporary popular fitness culture and the professionalizing field of physical education to craft an associated system of exercise that has informed approaches to physical training in the U.S. Army ever since"--
- Series Statement
- Modern war studies
- Uniform Title
- Modern war studies.
- Alternative Title
- US Army physical culture and systematic training, 1885-1957
- Subject
- United States. Army > Physical training > History > 19th century
- United States. Army > Physical training > History > 20th century
- United States. Army
- 1800-1999
- Physical education and training, Military > History > 19th century
- Physical education and training, Military > History > 20th century
- Physical fitness > United States > History
- Armed Forces > Physical training
- Physical education and training, Military
- Physical fitness
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-308) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Modern war, modern fitness -- Bodies and battlefields: Contextualizing martial fitness for modern war -- Origins of a US Army physical culture, 1885-1916 -- The US Army's battle of the systems, 1914-1920 -- Reversion, disaggregation, and "Prehabilitation" 1919-1940 -- Physical cultures for total war, 1936-1946 -- Hard bodies for Cold War, 1945-1957.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-793
- ISBN
- 9780700632589
- 0700632581
- 9780700632596 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021018726
- OCLC
- 1249712191
- Author
- Gatzemeyer, Garrett, author.
- Title
- Bodies for battle : US Army physical culture and systematic training, 1885-1957 / Garrett Gatzemeyer.
- Publisher
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Modern war studiesModern war studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-308) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-793