Research Catalog

Title

Armed with abundance : consumerism & soldiering in the Vietnam War / Meredith H. Lair.

Author

Lair, Meredith H.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.

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Details

Description

xviii, 295 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War

Subject

• United States. Army > History > Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• United States. Army > Military life > History > 20th century
• United States. Army
• 1900-1999
• Geschichte
• Soldiers > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Lifestyles > United States > History > 20th century
• Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > History > United States > 20th century
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects
• Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects
• Lifestyles
• Moral conditions
• Social aspects
• Armed Forces > Military life
• Soldiers > Social life and customs
• Soldat
• Unterhaltung
• Verbrauch
• Vietnamkrieg
• Soldat
• Vietnamkrieg
• Unterhaltung
• Verbrauch
• Vietnamkriget 1961-1975 > sociala aspekter
• United States > Moral conditions > History > 20th century
• United States
• USA
• USA

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A war refined: reframing the narrative of the Vietnam War -- Same side, different wars: grunts and REMFs in Vietnam -- This place just isn't John Wayne: U.S. military bases in Vietnam -- Total war on boredom: the U.S. military's recreation program in Vietnam -- The things they bought: G.I. consumerism in Vietnam -- War zone wonderland: the strange world of "the Nam" -- From Vietnam to Iraq: reimagining the American way of war.

ISBN

• 9780807834817
• 0807834815
• 9781469619033
• 1469619032

LCCN

2011022140

OCLC

• ocn711043265
• 711043265
• SCSB-14473652

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library