03225nam 2200673 a 450 991045795620332120200520144314.01-4696-1903-21-4696-0252-0(CKB)2550000000073837(EBL)825146(OCoLC)769101854(SSID)ssj0000550939(PQKBManifestationID)11341240(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550939(PQKBWorkID)10525587(PQKB)11151183(MiAaPQ)EBC825146(OCoLC)966898555(MdBmJHUP)muse48567(Au-PeEL)EBL825146(CaPaEBR)ebr10518908(CaONFJC)MIL930361(EXLCZ)99255000000007383720110527d2011 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrArmed with abundance[electronic resource] consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War /Meredith H. Lair1st ed.Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press20111 online resource (314 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-3481-5 0-8078-6918-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other ""comforts"" share the frame with combat.To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to insulate soldiers--and, by extension, the American public--from boredom and deprivation, making the project of war perhaps easierSoldiersUnited StatesSocial life and customs20th centuryLifestylesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryVietnam War, 1961-1975Social aspectsUnited StatesMoral conditionsHistory20th centuryElectronic books.SoldiersSocial life and customsLifestylesHistoryConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsHistoryVietnam War, 1961-1975Social aspects.959.704/31Lair Meredith H1027968MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457956203321Armed with abundance2443765UNINA