World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier

World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9781498546881
ISBN-13 : 1498546889
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Book Synopsis World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier by : David W. Seitz

Download or read book World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier written by David W. Seitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier: A Rhetorical History examines the United States government’s postwar ideological and rhetorical project in establishing permanent national military cemeteries abroad. Constructed throughout Europe where citizen-soldiers had fought and perished, and sacralized as American sites, these burial grounds simultaneously linked the nation’s war dead back to American soil and the national purpose rooted there, expressed the nation’s emerging prominent role on the world’s stage, and advanced the burgeoning icon of the “sacrificial, universal” US soldier. It draws upon untapped archival and historical materials from the WWI and interwar periods, as well as original on-site research, to show how the cemeteries came to display and advance the vision of the modern US soldier as “a global force for good.” Ultimately, within the visual display of overseas cemeteries we can detect the birth of “the modern US soldier”—a potent icon in which divergent emotions, memories, beliefs, and arguments of Americans and non-Americans have been expressed for a century.


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