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  • Beyond Pearl Harbor

    A Pacific History

    Edited by Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    Edited by Beth Bailey, Richard H. Immerman ...
    **Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Investigates the causes, conduct, and consequences of the recent American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan**Understanding the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is essential to understanding the United States in the first decade of the new millennium and beyond. These wars were pivotal to American foreign policy and international relations. They were ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

    by David Farber, Beth Bailey ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • An Army Afire

    How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

    by Beth Bailey ...
    By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of “same mud, same ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sex in the Heartland

    by Beth Bailey ...
    Sex in the Heartland is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing the oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on either coast, Beth Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as "ordinary" people struggled over the boundaries of public and private sexual behavior in postwar America ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The US Military and the Pacific Environment

    The Making of an American Lake

    Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg, Beth Bailey, Paul Landsberg ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    The environmental consequences of the US military presence from World War II through the end of the US war in Vietnam.Oceans and deserts, jungles and plains, mountains and rivers, monsoons and blizzards, fertile grounds and diseased lands; all have shaped how strategy and technology has been deployed and developed, and all have supported unexpected victories and decimated even the best-laid plans. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • America in the Seventies

    Edited by Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American historyThis is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Managing Sex in the U.S. Military

    Gender, Identity, and Behavior

    Edited by Beth Bailey, Alesha E. Doan, Shannon Portillo, Kara Dixon Vuic ...
    Series series Studies in War, Society, and the Military
    The U.S. military is a massive institution, and its policies on sex, gender, and sexuality have shaped the experiences of tens of millions of Americans, sometimes in life-altering fashion. The essays in Managing Sex in the U.S. Military examine historical and contemporary military policies and offer different perspectives on the broad question: “How does the U.S. military attempt to manage sex?” ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • America's Army

    Making the All-Volunteer Force

    by Beth Bailey ...
    In 1973, not long after the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, President Nixon fulfilled his campaign promise and ended the draft. No longer would young men find their futures determined by the selective service system; nor would the U.S. military have a guaranteed source of recruits.America’s Army is the story of the all-volunteer force, from the draft protests and policy ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The First Strange Place

    The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

    by Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic of this initial encounter than Hawaii, the target of the first ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Nature's Army

    When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite

    by Harvey Meyerson ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Blessings on Uncle Sam’s soldiers! They have done their job well, and every pine tree is waving its arms for joy.—John MuirMuir’s words and this book both celebrate a crucial but largely forgotten episode in our nation’s history—how a generation prior to the creation of a National Park Service, the US Army ran Yosemite National Park in an unusual alliance with the fabled preservationist John Muir ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    An Army Afire

    How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

    by Beth Bailey ...
    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 52 min

    By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in United States history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of "same ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook