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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Citizen-Soldier"”.
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The Legend and Life of Peter Francisco: Fame, Fortune, and the Deprivation of America's Original Citizen Soldier
… he distinguished himself nationally as a soldier of legendary renown. However, Francisco remains largely absent from the popular modern-day memory of the Revolution. This analysis determines how and why this occurred as well as how and why Francisco remains remembered today by a small …
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"""Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"": The Citizen-Soldier and the Construction of Identity in Northern Civil War Literature"
… and I focus on literary representations of the citizen-soldier. Rather than a static convention, this figure served as a site of conflict between the individual and the forces of centralization. The citizen-soldier reflected antebellum trends by synthesizing discourses of traditional …
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The Citizen-Soldier in the American Imagination: Traces of the Myths of World War II in the "Army Strong" Recruitment Campaign
The myth of the citizen-soldier resonates strongly in the American imagination and helps (re)construct America the nation. The construction of this myth in the historical context of World War II is especially prominent in contemporary American culture. The myth of the World War II citizen-soldier …
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Lei Feng: China's Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s to the Present
… China (PRC) had ever heard of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in a tragic accident while driving a truck for the People's Liberation Army. The following year, his name was known throughout China as one of the finest young soldiers that the country had ever produced. In years to come, his diary …
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Zombie Economics: Violence and Economics in three first-person shooter zombie-themed video games.
… connected to Empire, the worker-consumer and the citizen-soldier. Violence and economics are also connected through multiplayer interactions where players enact counterplay by committing avatar suicide to financially assist teammates, making life a resource and enacting a type of capitalism with …
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A veteran's voice: diaspora and fractured identity of the returning warrior, a cultural studies critical analysis of the returning vet using autoethnography and interviews
… the modem version of an ancient Greek hoplite, a citizen soldier or marine that often engaged in civic responsibilities during peace, and war, during conflict. By using Paula Saukko's 2005 Cultural Studies integrative methodology of combining contextual, dialogic, and self-reflexive approaches it …
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Leeds and the amateur military tradition: the Leeds Rifles and their antecedents, c. 1859-1918
… into the peacetime period, 1908-1914, where the "Citizen-soldier" of the Territorial Force was largely a citizen, and the wartime period, 1914-1918, where the soldierly elements were more necessary and notable. Similar themes and continuities pervade these two sections also, though increasingly …
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The evolution and development of the Australian Light Horse, 1860-1945
… analyses the role and place of the mounted soldier in the British and colonial/dominion armies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before going on to examine what effects the debates about this had on the development of Australia s mounted troops. It will find that in the …
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Mercenaries in History and the Modern Era: Impact of the Privatized Military Industry on U.S. Security Interests
… system known as the theme and the professional soldier was the foundation of its army. When this system was exirpated, Byzantium began to lose its influence. In all of the historical case studies herein, polities endured so long as they had their own militaries that were not comprised primarily …