The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare

Contents

Contents Editor’s Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. Part One: Militarization and Violence Militarizing the Menagerie: American Zoos from World War II to the Early Cold War 15 John M. Kinder War and Trauma: Francis Parkman and the Challenge of Writing the Pain of the Other 36 Kathleen Kennedy Agents of Destiny: The Texas Rangers and the Dilemma of the Conquest Narrative 53 Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. Part Two: Gender and Ethnicity A Prison without Bars: Charles Lee and the Society of Gentlemen Prisoners during the American Revolution 73 James J. Schaefer From Maiden to Mambisa: Evangelina Cisneros and the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898 88 Belinda Linn Rincón Reconstructing Warriors: Myth, Meaning, and Multiculturalism in US Army Advertising after Vietnam 107 Jeremy K. Saucier CONTENTS viii Part Three: Imagination and Emotion “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember the Maine”: The Visual Ideologies of the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars 123 Bonnie M. Miller Virtuous Victims, Visceral Violence: War and Melodrama in American Culture 147 Jonna Eagle On Angels’ Wings: The Religious Origins of the US Air Force 163 Timothy J. Cathcart Part Four: Foretelling and Forgetting The Prophecies of Civil War Soldiers: A History of the Future 183 Jason Phillips Randall Wallace’s We Were Soldiers: Forgetting the American War in Viet Nam 201 Susan L. Eastman Marshaling the Imaginary, Imagining the Martial: Or, What Is at Stake in the Cultural Analysis of War? 219 Amy S. Greenberg Contributors 235 Index 237 ...