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Unguarded Border

American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War

Rutgers University Press

Unguarded Border tells the stories of the 50,000 Americans who fled across the border to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, permanently changing perceptions of military service, nation, and citizenship. 

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In the Crossfire of History

Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

Rutgers University Press

This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
 

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In the Crossfire of History

Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

Rutgers University Press

This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
 

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German Ways of War

The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films

Rutgers University Press

German Ways of War explores the production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects in the war-film genre between the 1910s and 2000s. Beyond the conventional pairing of visuality and violence, war films combine mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks into “affective geographies” that interweave narratively-generated affect, space, and political processes.
 

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War without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

Rutgers University Press

Thanks to the invention of photography and the telegraph descriptions and images of war have proliferated from the nineteenth century onward, yet wars continue to be fought. The way descriptions of war are framed blunts the impact of images of death and makes war an acceptable option by representing it as “war without bodies” therefore without casualties. Beginning with Crimean War, War Without Bodies traces the ways that death was framed in poetry, photography, video and video games up to and including the Iraq War.

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The American Girl Goes to War

Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film

Rutgers University Press

The American Girl Goes to War demonstrates the predominance of heroic female characters in in early narrative films about war. American Girls were filled with the military spirit of their forefathers and became one of the major ways that American women’s changing political involvement, independence, and active natures were contained by and subsumed into pre-existing American ideologies.
 

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Cyberwars in the Middle East

Rutgers University Press

Cyberwars in the Middle East argues that offline political tensions in the Middle East that are sometimes sectarian and regional in nature play a vital role in enhancing the cyber operations and hacking attempts that frequently occur. These cyber operations are often used for espionage and/or undermining the authority and credibility of governments, changing their policies, or causing economic damage. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi explores different types of cyber operations and many hacktivists and hacking groups that are active in the region. He looks at how they are connected to globalization and how some are linked to or clash with global hacktivist groups.

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American War Stories

Rutgers University Press

American War Stories breaks down the American perception of wars and focuses on how and why we conceptualize the “war” story. It is one of the first studies to ask readers to contemplate what constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalizing of militarism in American culture.
 

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Unmanning

How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare

Rutgers University Press

Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Rather than treating the drone as a result of the war on terror, this book examines contemporary targeted killing through a series of failed experiments to develop unmanned flight in the twentieth century. These experiments are tied to histories of global control, cybernetics, racism and colonialism. Drone crashes and failures call attention to the significance of human action in making technopolitics that comes to be opposed to “man” and the paradoxes at their basis.

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Intervention Narratives

Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror

Rutgers University Press

Intervention Narratives examines contradictory cultural representations of the US intervention in Afghanistan that justify an imperial foreign policy. Bose demonstrates that contemporary imperialism operates on an ideologically diverse terrain by marshaling familiar tropes of entrepreneurship, pet love, and Orientalist stereotypes to enlist support for the war across the political spectrum.

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Postfeminist War

Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex

Rutgers University Press

By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face. 

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Warring over Valor

How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Edited by Simon Wendt
Rutgers University Press

By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. 

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Warring over Valor

How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Edited by Simon Wendt
Rutgers University Press

By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. 

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Crash Course

From the Good War to the Forever War

Rutgers University Press

In this gripping memoir, renowned historian former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer H. Bruce Franklin offers a unique firsthand look at the American Century’s darkest hours. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars. 

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Destructive Sublime

World War II in American Film and Media

Rutgers University Press

In the American popular imaginary, the Second World War remains the prime example of American virtue—the country is typified by individual and collective heroism. Destructive Sublime complicates the oversimplified and commonly held view that film and video portray the war in ways that are conservative, both politically and aesthetically.  

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