The military and the market
The military and the market
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
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| Omfang | vi, 248 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The Military and the Market / Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson -- The Politics of US Military Privatizations, 1945-2000 / Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson -- The World's Biggest Landlord : How the Cold War Military Built Its Arsenal of Houses / A. Junn Murphy -- Updating the Military Industrial Complex : The Evolution of the National Security Contracting Complex from the Cold War and to the Forever War / Daniel Wirls -- "Make Up a Box to Send Me" : Consumer Culture and Camp Life in the American Civil War / Sarah Jones Weicksel -- A Girl in Every Port? The US Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century / Kara Dixon Vuic -- Building the Bases of Empire : The US Army Corps of Engineers and Military Construction During the Early Cold War / Gretchen Heefner -- Militarized Circuits : Kang Ki Dong, the US Military, and the Rise of Global High Tech / Patrick Chung -- "Don't Discuss Jobs Outside This Room" : Reconsidering Military Keynesianism in the 1970s / Timothy Barker -- Mediating the Economic Impacts of Service : Race and Veterans' Welfare after the War in Vietnam / Jessica L. Adler.. - "The Military and the Market brings to bear the scholarship of a diverse group of historians and political scientists, to enrich our understanding of the depth and complexity of military-market relations. In the chapters collected in this volume, scholars offer innovative histories of markets and war, in the US and across the globe, from the nineteenth century through the present day. Many of the chapters focus on specific markets, in which buyers and sellers of goods or services-such as housing, or electronics, or sex-transact business. These microlevel case studies highlight specific military actors, such as particular services or departments, as well as individual civilian industries or entrepreneurs. At the same time, the volume as a whole traces changing relationships between the military and "the market" writ large, by exploring connections between two of the most important forces of the modern era: national armed forces and capitalism. Military actors past and present have not merely purchased from (and shaped) specific markets for pragmatic reasons but have also participated, knowingly or unknowingly, in political struggles over how much deference should be given to a broader "market"-oriented economic system based on private property, decentralized decisions, and the pursuit of profit. As the contents of this volume suggest, perhaps what is most remarkable about the long-run history of the military and the market is not the many tensions between them, but their record of accommodation and collaboration"--
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| ISBN | 9781512823233
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