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Author : Alan N. Sabrosky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783717746
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Blue-Collar Soldiers? written by Alan N. Sabrosky and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Ned Sabrosky
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Blue-collar Soldiers? written by Alan Ned Sabrosky and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313391998
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Blue-Collar Pop Culture written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From television, film, and music to sports, comics, and everyday life, this book provides a comprehensive view of working-class culture in America. The terms "blue collar" and "working class" remain incredibly vague in the United States, especially in pop culture, where they are used to express and connote different things at different times. Interestingly, most Americans are, in reality, members of the working class, even if they do not necessarily think of themselves that way. Perhaps the popularity of many cultural phenomena focused on the working class can be explained in this way: we are endlessly fascinated by ourselves. Blue-Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to Jersey Shore provides a sophisticated, accessible, and entertaining examination of the intersection between American popular culture and working-class life in America. Covering topics as diverse as the attacks of September 11th, union loyalties, religion, trailer parks, professional wrestling, and Elvis Presley, the essays in this two-volume work will appeal to general readers and be valuable to scholars and students studying American popular culture.
Author : Valgene L. Dunham
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480820709
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Gregory’s New York Brigade: written by Valgene L. Dunham and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of October 1864, the only equipment most Union soldiers near Petersburg, Virginia, needed was a shovel--including Gen. Edgar Gregory’s new reserve brigade, which was digging trenches around the besieged city. Most of the brigade’s volunteer members from New York had never fired a musket upon marching into the swamps and woods southwest of Petersburg. But the dusty blue-collar workers became a force to be reckoned with as they dug and marched westward to force Gen. Robert E. Lee to extend forces away from Petersburg. Following the brigade’s largest battle, Five Forks, the Union marched rapidly westward to keep Lee from joining Gen. Joseph Johnston. The brigade was selected to assist in the surrender at Appomattox. Those acts alone would have solidified the brigade’s place in history, but its men also served as caretakers of the peace during their march back to Washington, D.C.--especially after the assassination of President Lincoln. Gregory’s New York Brigade deserves to be honored as much as those who fought in the major battles of the war. Find out why in this detailed account of its well deserved place in history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Soldiers written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yagil Levy
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119082
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Israel's Materialist Militarism written by Yagil Levy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel's Materialist Militarism examines the decade of fluctuations in Israel's military policies, from the peace period of the Oslo Accords to the al-Aqsa Intifada, when the military's use of excessive force led to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, and on to the Second Lebanon War of 2006, which reversed the moderating tendencies of the withdrawal from Gaza a year earlier. These dynamics of escalation and deescalation are explained in terms of materialist militarism, the exchange between social groups' military sacrifice and their social rewards, which in turn increases or decreases the level of militarism in society. Levy thus lays down a theoretical framework vital to tracing the fluctuating levels of militarism in Israel and elsewhere. Israel's Materialist Militarism is recommended for those interested in the Arab-Israeli conflict and military-society relations in general.
Author : Rachel Woodward
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137516771
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military written by Rachel Woodward and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which militaries issues and military forces are shaped by gender. The chapters provide detailed accounts of key issues, informed by examples from original research in a wealth of different national contexts. This Handbook includes coverage of conceptual approaches to the study of gender and militaries, gender and the organisation of state military forces, gender as it pertains to military forces in action, transitions and transgressions within militaries, gender and non-state military forces, and gender in representations of military personnel and practices. With contributions from a range of both established and early career scholars, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military is an essential guide to current debates on gender and contemporary military issues.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Personnel Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Lincolnhol
Publisher : Michael Lincolnhol
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book I want to go to Jiuzhou written by Michael Lincolnhol and published by Michael Lincolnhol. This book was released on with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In autumn, the weather under U Do mountain is getting colder and colder, Dai U palace near the top of the mountain is about to be as cold as winter. In such weather, having to climb Han Ngoc cave at the top of the mountain every day to release blood is not for humans! That fox is more ruthless than a bloodsucker. Although I have been ejecting a lot less these days, the hematopoietic function still cannot keep up with the discharge rate. Dizziness is no longer a strange thing to me, early this morning I woke up and passed out. But fortunately did not miss much time. I pushed up the "brass-jumping" mask, patted my chest panting and said, "Oh this damned body". Resting for a while, wrapping my robe tightly, I continued to climb to the top of the mountain. In fact, at first, Thuong Tieu asked for the wrong person to take me up, but I refused very emphatically. I didn't want to admit that I did it just in exchange for his pain. Because I understand, the only person who can make him heartbroken is the beautiful woman who has slept for four hundred years in the Han Ngoc cave - Tu Dan - only.
Author : Devorah S. Manekin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501750453
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Regular Soldiers, Irregular War written by Devorah S. Manekin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices. Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level. Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.
Author : Rachel Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134163630
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Sexing the Soldier written by Rachel Woodward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender is understood within the contemporary British Army. Drawing on original research, this book argues that dominant ideas about gender, evident in areas as diverse as policy documents and cultural pract.
Author : Jennifer Mittelstadt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674915399
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Military Welfare State written by Jennifer Mittelstadt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of US military benefits “offers a disturbing view of the armed forces as a high-value target in political clashes over public assistance” (The Nation). Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to “Be All That You Can Be.” But beneath the recruitment slogans, the army promised volunteers something more tangible: a social safety net including medical care, education, housing assistance, legal services, and other privileges that had long been reserved for career soldiers. The Rise of the Military Welfare State examines how the U.S. Army’s extension of benefits to enlisted men and women created a military welfare system of unprecedented size and scope. In the 1970s, widespread opposition to the draft led to the establishment of America’s all-volunteer army. For this to succeed, a new strategy was needed for attracting and retaining soldiers. The army solved the problem, Jennifer Mittelstadt shows, by promising to take care of its own. While the United States dismantled its civilian welfare system in the 1980s and 1990s, army benefits continued to expand. Mittelstadt also examines how critics of this expansion fought to roll back its signature achievements, even as a new era of war began.
Author : Edna Lomsky-Feder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351839799
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Women Soldiers and Citizenship in Israel written by Edna Lomsky-Feder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s military service in Israel presents a compelling case study to explore the meaning of gendered citizenship. Lomsky-Feder and Sasson-Levy compellingly argue that women’s mandatory military service during an active ongoing violent conflict, occurring at a formative age, becomes an initiation process into gendered citizenship, where the women learn their marginal place in relation to the state. By analyzing the life stories and testimonies of young women from varied social backgrounds, the authors ask: How do young women soldiers manage their expectations vis-à-vis the hyper-masculine military institution? How do women experience their gendered citizenship as daily embodied and emotional practices in different military roles? How do women soldiers understand and cope with daily sexual harassment? And finally, how do women cope with the gendered silencing mechanisms of the violence of war and occupation, and what can women soldiers know about this violence when they choose to speak out? The book offers a new conceptualization of citizenship as gendered encounters with the state. These encounters can be analyzed through three interrelated concepts: Multi-level contracts; Contrasting gendered experiences; Dis/acknowledging the military’s (external and internal) violence. Applying these three thought-provoking concepts, the authors depict the intricate, non-deterministic relationships between citizenship, military service and multiple gendered experiences.
Author : Katharine M. Millar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197642330
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Support the Troops written by Katharine M. Millar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic states increasingly rely on small, all-volunteer militaries deployed in distant wars of choice. While few people now serve in the armed forces, our cultural myths and narratives of warfare continue to reproduce a strong connection between military service, citizenship, and normative masculinity. In Support the Troops, Katharine M. Millar provides an empirical overview of "support the troops" discourses in the US and UK during the early years of the global war on terror (2001-2010). As Millar argues, seemingly stable understandings of the relationship between military service, citizenship, and gender norms are being unsettled by changes in warfare. The effect is a sense of uneasiness about the meaning of what it means to be a "good" citizen, "good" person, and, crucially, a "good" man in a context where neither war nor military service easily align with existing cultural myths about wartime obligations and collective sacrifice. Instead we participate in the performance of supporting the troops, even when we oppose war--an act that appears not only patriotic and moral, but also apolitical. Failing to support the troops, either through active opposition or a lack of overt supportive actions, is perceived as not only offensive and inappropriately political, but disloyal and dangerous. Millar asserts that military support acts as a new form of military service, which serves to limit anti-war dissent, plays a crucial role in naturalizing the violence of the transnational liberal order, and recasts war as an internal issue of solidarity and loyalty. Rigorous and politically challenging, Millar provides the first work to systematically examine "support the troops" as a distinct social phenomenon and offers a novel reading of this discourse through a gendered lens that places it in historical and transnational context.
Author : Stuart A. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134146418
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Israel and Its Army written by Stuart A. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed examination of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF), one of the worlds most complex military forces. Stuart Cohen analyzes the strategic, societal and organizational aspects of the IDF, identifying the key changes occurring in Israel‘s military framework, and exploring their potential implications.
Author : Alex Alexandrou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780714682020
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)
Download or read book New People Strategies for the British Armed Forces written by Alex Alexandrou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon an ongoing series of conferences and seminars dealing with human resource management in the British armed forces, this study proposes new ways of tackling one of the most contentious of issues facing the military today.
