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

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
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Summary	In this manuscript, Meredith Lair seeks to recalibrate the way Americans think about their wars by addressing non-combat experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam. Though only one in four Vietnam veterans served in combat--and likely even fewer--both popular representations and scholarly treatments of the war focus on combat and its after-effects, erasing comfort, recreation, and fun from the picture. In this ms, Lair instead paints a provocative picture of the Vietnam War in which beauty and ice cream take precedence over the bullets, as they often did for Americans who served there. Lair uncovers.
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	United States. Army -- History -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
	United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 20th century.
	United States. Army. (OCoLC)fst00533532
	Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664
	Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Lifestyles -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Soldiers -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Social aspects.
	United States -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century.
	United States. Army -- History -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
	HISTORY -- Military -- Vietnam War.
	Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00876475
	Lifestyles. (OCoLC)fst00998417
	Moral conditions. (OCoLC)fst01026043
	Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
	Armed Forces -- Military life. (OCoLC)fst01351813
	Soldiers -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01125311
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Lair, Meredith H. Armed with abundance. 1st ed. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834817 (DLC) 2011022140 (OCoLC)711043265
ISBN	9781469602523 (electronic bk.)
	1469602520 (electronic bk.)

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