David W. Seitz

World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier (eBook, PDF)

A Rhetorical History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216218111
• Artikelnr.: 74831068

Autorenporträt

David W. Seitz is associate professor of communication at Penn State Mont Alto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. The "Uncensored" View from Afar: American Perceptions of the
Great War, 1914-1917
Chapter Two. "Body and Soul and Spirit": Mobilization, Conscription, and
Mass Death, 1917-1918
Chapter Three. A Crisis of Speech: Addressing Mass Death and the Trauma of
War, 1918-1922
Chapter Four. Why They Died: Public Memory and the Birth of the Modern U.S.
Soldier, 1922-1933
Conclusion
Index
About the Author