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World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier

A Rhetorical History
  • ISBN-13: 9781498546874
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By David W. Seitz
  • Price: AUD $283.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2018
  • Format: Hardback 342 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier: A Rhetorical History examines the United States government's postwar ideological and rhetorical project in establishing permanent national military cemeteries abroad. Constructed throughout Europe where citizen-soldiers had fought and perished, and sacralized as American sites, these burial grounds simultaneously linked the nation's war dead back to American soil and the national purpose rooted there, expressed the nation's emerging prominent role on the world's stage, and advanced the burgeoning icon of the "sacrificial, universal" US soldier. It draws upon untapped archival and historical materials from the WWI and interwar periods, as well as original on-site research, to show how the cemeteries came to display and advance the vision of the modern US soldier as "a global force for good." Ultimately, within the visual display of overseas cemeteries we can detect the birth of "the modern US soldier"-a potent icon in which divergent emotions, memories, beliefs, and arguments of Americans and non-Americans have been expressed for a century.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. The "Uncensored" View from Afar: American Perceptions of the Great War, 1914-1917 Chapter Two. "Body and Soul and Spirit": Mobilization, Conscription, and Mass Death, 1917-1918 Chapter Three. A Crisis of Speech: Addressing Mass Death and the Trauma of War, 1918-1922 Chapter Four. Why They Died: Public Memory and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Soldier, 1922-1933 Conclusion Index About the Author
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