Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Home Front

Americans at War examines the impact of war on the social, cultural, economic and political life of America from the period of the first European colonisation to the recent present. The emphasis is not on the immediate activities of warfare itself, so we do not find a preoccupation with campaign strategies, battle tactics or weapon technologies. Instead, the focus is much broader: social and political themes cover the economy, industry, the constitution, patriotism, national identity, civil liberties, dissent, race, gender, and the family. Cultural themes cover media, literature, music, the visual arts, and cinema. What emerges is a picture of...