At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

At War offers short, accessible essays by established scholars, addresses the central issues in the new military history - ranging from diplomacy and the history of U.S imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of race and gender to questions of who serves in the U.S. military and why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture. Each chapter places its topic in a broad historical context, beginning in the late nineteenth century and examining how the issue has evolved over the past 125 years. [Publisher]