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28%OFFKenneth T. Macleish - Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community - 9780691165707 - V9780691165707
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Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community

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Description for Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBW; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691165707
SKU
V9780691165707
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About Kenneth T. Macleish
Kenneth T. MacLeish is assistant professor of medicine, health, and society at Vanderbilt University.

Reviews for Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community
Third Place for the 2013 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association Honorable Mention for the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America MacLeish writes eloquently... [T]his portrait of Army life on American turf is a welcome change of pace from the recent ... Read more

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