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Armed with abundance : consumerism & soldiering in the Vietnam War
- Author
- Lair, Meredith H.
- Title
- Armed with abundance : consumerism & soldiering in the Vietnam War / Meredith H. Lair.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Description
- xviii, 295 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- Variant title
- Consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- United States. Army--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975. United States. Army--Military life--History--20th century. Soldiers--United States--Social life and customs--20th century. Lifestyles--United States--History--20th century. Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century. Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Social aspects. United States--Moral conditions--History--20th century.
- ISBN
- 9780807834817 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834815 (cloth : alk. paper)