Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author MacLeish, Kenneth T., 1979-

Title Making war at Fort Hood : life and uncertainty in a military community / Kenneth T. MacLeish
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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
Summary 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's reach extends far beyond the battlefield into military communities where violence is as routine, boring, and normal as it is shocking and traumatic. Fort Hood is one of the largest military installations in the world, and many of the 55,000 personnel based there have served multiple tours
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Army -- Military life.
SUBJECT United States. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00533532
Subject Soldiers -- Texas -- Fort Hood
Families of military personnel -- Texas -- Fort Hood -- Social conditions
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Psychological aspects
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Social aspects -- United States
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans -- Mental health -- United States
HISTORY -- Military -- Iraq War (2003- )
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Armed Forces -- Military life.
Psychological aspects.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Soldiers.
Veterans -- Mental health.
Soldat
Familienangehöriger
Alltag
Militärstützpunkt
SUBJECT Fort Hood (Tex.) -- Social conditions
Subject Iraq.
Texas -- Fort Hood.
United States.
Texas
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012030868
ISBN 9781400846290
1400846293
9781299051409
1299051405