American Samurai

Name: American Samurai
Author: Craig M. Cameron

Myth and Imagination in the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division 1941–1951

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Paperback, 316 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2002

ISBN13: 9780521525923

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American Samurai offers an innovative approach to military history by linking battlefield dynamics of the Pacific War to cultural, social, and institutional myth among marines of the First Division. Although it has elements of each, the book is neither a detailed campaign history nor a traditional unit history. It moves in roughly chronological order, but is organised thematically to explore how myth and imagination shaped the marines' actions. It blends a humanistic approach of letting the actors speak for themselves in letters and memoirs with insights from the social sciences.

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ISBN13:9780521525923

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Aantal pagina's:316

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

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List of illustrations, maps and tables; Preface; Introduction: imagery and instrumentality in war; 1. Mythic images of the Marines before Pearl Harbour; 2. Creating Marine - and a masculine deal; 3. Images of the Japanese 'other' defined: guadalcanal and beyond; 4. 'Devil dogs' and 'dogfaces': images of the 'self' in Peleliu; 5. Okinawa: technology empowers ideology; 6. Collapse of the Pacific War images, 1945–1951; 7. Rewriting the war; Notes; Selected bibliography.

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