Protecting Women

Name: Protecting Women
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Protecting WomenUS Army Culture in the Second USSeminole War and the USMexican War\nAuthor(s): Justine Meberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009647281, 978-1009647281\nSynopsis\nRecovering the rarely heard voices of immigrant soldiers, Indigenouswomen, and Mexican women alongside officers' narratives, this book richly portrays the US Army at war in Florida and Mexico. Its unique focus on interactions between thearmy and local women uncovers army culture's gendered foundations. Countering analmost exclusively officer-focused historiography, it amasses enlisted men's accounts to describe what life was like for ordinary soldiers, show how enlisted men participated in and shaped army culture, and demonstrate how officers wrote their reports to achieve specific ends. By piecing together scattered mentions of women from personal writings, military and civilian newspapers, court-martial proceedings.