9781512823240

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American Business, Politics, and Society

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction. The Military and the Market

1. The Politics of US Military Privatizations, 1945-2000

2. The World's Biggest Landlord: How the Cold War Military Built Its Arsenal of Houses

3. Updating the Military Industrial Complex: The Evolution of the National Security Contracting Complex from the Cold War to the Forever War

4. "Make Up a Box to Send Me": Consumer Culture and Camp Life in the American Civil War

5. A Girl in Every Port? The US Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century

6. Building the Bases of Empire: The US Army Corps of Engineers and Military Construction During the Early Cold War

7. Militarized Circuits: Kang Ki Dong, the US Military, and the Rise of Global High Tech

8. "Don't Discuss Jobs Outside This Room": Reconsidering Military Keynesianism in the 1970s

9. Mediating the Economic Impacts of Service: Race and Veterans' Welfare after the War in Vietnam

Conclusion

Notes

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures.

United States > Defenses > Economic aspects.

Walter de Gruyter & Co. University of Pennsylvania Press Complete 2022.