{"product_id":"militarization-and-the-american-century-9781350102224","title":"Militarization and the American Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking American mobilization in WWII as its departure point, this book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to the history of militarization in the United States since 1940. Exploring the ways in which war and the preparation for war have shaped and affected the United States during The American Century', Fitzgerald demonstrates how militarization has moulded relations between the US and the rest of the world. Providing a timely synthesis of key scholarship in a rapidly developing field, this book shows how national security concerns have affected issues as diverse as the development of the welfare state, infrastructure spending, gender relations and notions of citizenship. It also examines the way in which war is treated in the American imagination; how it has been depicted throughout this era, why its consequences have been made largely invisible and how Americans have often considered themselves to be reluctant warriors. In integrating domestic histories with internationa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInformative and thorough ... \u003ci\u003eMilitarization and the American Century\u003c\/i\u003e is an instructive and comprehensive book, a fine piece of scholarship that will inform and provoke. * H-Net *\u003cbr\u003eAs David Fitzgerald shows in this intelligent, humane, and elegantly written book, since World War II the military has defined modern American society as much as anything else. Building on the recent scholarship on militarization, Fitzgerald reveals the fascinating extent to which the United States has been shaped by war. * Andrew Preston, Cambridge University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eFitzgerald’s book offers a persuasive account of how American militarization accelerated in the context of Cold War competition, rather than grounding it in the Second World War moment. * International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative examination of everything from social welfare policies to base politics and the southern border reveals both the centrality of militarization to American domestic politics and foreign relations and its increasing invisibility. An important work for those interested in how militarism took hold and whether its tentacles can be disentangled. * Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America, Texas Christian University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction      Liberal Empire and the Paradoxes of War:      Militarization before 1941  Militarized Encounters: Armed Americans      Abroad  ‘National Security’ and the      Militarization of Statecraft  Bases, Borders and Gun Belts: The      Evolution of Militarized Spaces in the United States and Beyond  Military Service and the Meanings of Citizenship  War in the American Imagination  Conclusion Select Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019628020055,"sku":"9781350102224","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350102224.jpg?v=1750780832","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/militarization-and-the-american-century-9781350102224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}