Justine Meberg

Protecting Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recovering the rarely heard voices of immigrant soldiers, Indigenous women, and Mexican women alongside officers' narratives, this book richly portrays the US Army at war in Florida and Mexico. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in military history, gender studies, Indigenous studies, and the history of violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781009647281
• ISBN-10: 1009647288
• Artikelnr.: 75013623

Autorenporträt

Justine Meberg received her PhD from Columbia University, where she won the Bancroft Dissertation Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: army paternalists
enemy women
and US Army culture in wartime Florida and Mexico
1835-1848; Part I. War in Florida: 1. The dilemma of army cohesion: West Point officers
immigrant soldiers
and the beginnings of an army culture
1802-1842; 2. Developing a logic of protection: army debates on the treatment of Seminole women in Florida
1835-1842; 3. 'Find where their women are': the US Army's pursuit of Seminole women
1835-1842; Part II. War in Mexico: 4. Rescuing the enemy: Mexican women and the US Army's transformation in Northern Mexico
1846-1847; 5. A Perfect sacrifice: the unexplored rape case that radically expanded military justice
1847; 6. Buying benevolence: contested legitimacy during the US occupation of Mexico
1847; 7. 'They were our best friends': army misunderstandings of Mexican women's wartime activities
1847-1848; Conclusion: beyond men's military history.