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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Vincent is Assistant Professor of English at Towson University. Klappentext The Health of the State is a cultural history that explores how war writing figured in three phases of modern America's political evolution: Civil War remembrance during the Progressive Era, the culture of World War I and the new internationalism, and World War II's legitimation of Cold War liberalism. Zusammenfassung The Health of the State is a cultural history that explores how war writing figured in three phases of modern America's political evolution: Civil War remembrance during the Progressive Era, the culture of World War I and the new internationalism, and World War II's legitimation of Cold War liberalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: The Health of the State Chapter 1: Paradoxical Pedagogies: Civil War Narratives and the Progressive State, 1890-1917 Chapter 2: Preparedness Nation: World War I and the Culture of Militarization Chapter 3: "A Bestial Convulsion of Civilization": Race and Nation in American Modernism Preface to Part II: The "Analogue of War" and the Liberal Warfare State Chapter 4: A Peculiar Sovereignty: Literary Antifascism and the Liberal Warfare State Chapter 5: The Vacant Center: Cold War Liberalism and World War II Narrative Chapter 6: Refusing Sovereignty: Impossible Subjects and the Politics of Resistance Afterword: Security, Identity, Nonsovereignty Notes Works Cited
