Making War at Fort Hood : : Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community / / Kenneth T. MacLeish.

Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 6 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue. "Don't Fuckin' Leave Any of This Shit Out"
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Site of Exception
  • 2. Heat, Weight, Metal, Gore, Exposure
  • 3. Being Stuck and Other Problems in the Reproduction of Life
  • 4. Vicissitudes of Love
  • 5. War Economy
  • Postscript: So- called Resiliency
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Army Rank Structure
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index