The Military and the Market /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Mittelstadt, Jennifer (Editor), Wilson, Mark R. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Series:	American business, politics, and society.
Subjects:	United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures. United States > Defenses > Economic aspects. HISTORY / United States / General. Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures. Military readiness > Economic aspects. United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Introduction. The Military and the Market
1. The Politics of US Military Privatizations, 1945-2000
2. The World's Biggest Landlord: How the Cold War Military Built Its Arsenal of Houses
3. Updating the Military Industrial Complex: The Evolution of the National Security Contracting Complex from the Cold War to the Forever War
4. "Make Up a Box to Send Me": Consumer Culture and Camp Life in the American Civil War
5. A Girl in Every Port? The US Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century
6. Building the Bases of Empire: The US Army Corps of Engineers and Military Construction During the Early Cold War
7. Militarized Circuits: Kang Ki Dong, the US Military, and the Rise of Global High Tech
8. "Don't Discuss Jobs Outside This Room": Reconsidering Military Keynesianism in the 1970s
9. Mediating the Economic Impacts of Service: Race and Veterans' Welfare after the War in Vietnam
Conclusion
Notes
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments