Fighting for Peace - Veterans and Military Families in the Antiiraq War Movement

Klappentext Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War-the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews! Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism. Zusammenfassung Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War—the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Leitz
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2014
• EAN: 9780816680450
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-8045-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention; Social Movements, Protest, and; Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries