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The health of the state : modern US war narrative and the American political imagination, 1890-1964
Title
The health of the state : modern US war narrative and the American political imagination, 1890-1964 / Jonathan Vincent.
ISBN
9780190466664
0190466669
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Physical Description
xii, 293 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"The Health of the State is a cultural history that considers how war writing figured in three phases of modern America's political evolution: Civil War remembrance during the Progressive Era, the culture of World War I and the new internationalism, and World War II's legitimation of Cold War liberalism" -- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Vincent, Jonathan (Jonathan E.), author. Health of the state New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Health of the State
Liberalism and War in American Political Discourse
Organizational Affect, Modern Temporality, and the Imagined Future War Narrative's Flexible Pedagogy
A Conclusion on Methodology
Paradoxical Pedagogies: Civil War Narratives and the Progressive State, 1890-1917
Preparedness Nation: World War I and the Culture of Militarization
"A Bestial Convulsion of Civilization": Race and Nation in American Modernism
A Peculiar Sovereignty: Literary Antifascism and the Liberal Warfare State
The Vacant Center: Cold War Liberalism and World War II Narrative
Refusing Sovereignty: Impossible Subjects and the Politics of Resistance
Afterword.
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