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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lair, Meredith H.
Other title:Consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.

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