Armed with abundance [electronic resource] : consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War / Meredith H. Lair.
Publication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, p. : ill., mapISBN:- 9780807834817 (cloth alk. paper)
- 9780807869185 (e-book)
- Consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War
- 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
- 959.704/31 23
- DS558.2 .L35 2011eb
eBooks
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.
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