Making war at Fort Hood [ life and uncertainty in a military community

Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war...

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Main Author: MacLeish, Kenneth T. , 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2013
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Online Access:http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001871/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html

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505 0 |a 1. A site of exception -- 2. Heat, weight, metal, gore, exposure -- 3. Being stuck and other problems in the reproduction of life -- 4. Vicissitudes of love -- 5. War economy 
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650 0 |a Families of military personnel   |z Texas   |z Fort Hood   |x Social conditions 
650 0 |a Iraq War, 2003-2011   |x Psychological aspects 
650 0 |a Iraq War, 2003-2011   |x Social aspects   |z United States 
650 0 |a Soldiers   |z Texas   |z Fort Hood 
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