Armed with abundance
Subtitle: consumerism & soldiering in the Vietnam War
By: Meredith H. Lair
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780807834817
Subjects: Social life and customs; Military life; Consumption (Economics); Social aspects; United States; Moral conditions; Soldiers; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Army; Lifestyles; History
Other titles: Consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A war refined: reframing the narrative of the Vietnam War; title: Same side, different wars: grunts and REMFs in Vietnam; title: This place just isn't John Wayne: U.S. military bases in Vietnam; title: Total war on boredom: the U.S. military's recreation program in Vietnam; title: The things they bought: G.I. consumerism in Vietnam; title: War zone wonderland: the strange world of "the Nam"; title: From Vietnam to Iraq: reimagining the American way of war.