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Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics : New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States
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The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing topic of interest, but to date most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry. Veterans' ...
The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing topic of interest, but to date most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry. Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics is the first multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the American veteran experience. Stephen Ortiz has compiled some of the best work on the formation and impact of veterans' policies, the politics of veterans' issues, and veterans' political engagement over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States.
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- edited by Stephen R. Ortiz ; foreword by Suzanne Mettler
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- English
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- Florida : University Press of Florida, 2012
- ©2012
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- 1 online resource (335 pages)
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- 9780813043456, 0813042070, 9780813042541, 0813042542, 081304345X, 9780813042077
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- ocn820123123, ocn830518983, ocn826298889
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Health Care; 1. Army Sanctuary for Tubercular Veterans: Veterans' Health Care before the Veterans Bureau; 2. The Invention, Stumbling, and Reinvention of the Modern U.S. Veterans Health Care System, 1918-1924; Part Ii. Disability; 3. Architecture of Injury: Disabled Veterans, Federal Policy, and the Built Environment in the Early Twentieth Century; 4. "An Emblem of Distinction": The Politics of Disability Entitlement, 1940-1950; Part Iii. The Politics of Race and Labor
- 5. "Put Fighting Blood in Your Business": The U.S. War Department and the Reemployment of World War I Soldiers6. The Long Journey Home: African American World War I Veterans and Veterans' Policies; Part Iv. Bonuses and G.I. Bills; 7. Rethinking the Bonus March: Federal Bonus Policy, Veteran Organizations, and the Origins of a Protest Movement; 8. "Do Something for the Soldier Boys": Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the Contours of Liberalism; 9. "A Veteran Does Not Have to Stay a Veteran Forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill
- 10. A Price on Patriotism: The Politics and Unintended Consequences of the 1966 G.I. BillPart V. Contemporary Veterans' Politics; 11. Conventional and Distinctive Policy Preferences of Early-Twenty- First-Century Veterans; 12. Exploring the Effects of Combat Exposure on American Civic Life; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y