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050 00 $aVE23.22 1st$b.C36 1994
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100 1 $aCameron, Craig M.,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93028504
245 10 $aAmerican samurai :$bmyth, imagination, and the conduct of battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951 /$cCraig M. Cameron.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York, NY, USA :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
300 $axiii, 297 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aBased on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1990.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-284) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Imagery and Instrumentality in War -- 1. Mythic Images of the Marines before Pearl Harbor -- 2. Creating Marines - and a Masculine Ideal -- 3. Images of the Japanese "Other" Defined: Guadalcanal and Beyond -- 4. "Devil Dogs" and "Dogfaces": Images of the "Self" on Peleliu -- 5. Okinawa: Technology Empowers Ideology -- 6. Collapse of the Pacific War Images, 1945-1951 -- 7. Rewriting the War.
520 $aEvents on the battlefields of the Pacific War were not only outgrowths of technology and tactical doctrine, but also the products of cultural myth and imagination. A neglected aspect of the history of the Marine Corps operation against Imperial Japan has been any close study of how the marines themselves shaped the landscape of the battlefields on which they created new institutional legends.
520 8 $aMarines projected ideas and assumptions about themselves and their enemy onto people, situations, and events throughout the war, and thereby gave life to formerly abstract ideas and molded their behavior to expectations.
520 8 $aFocusing specifically on the First Marine Division, this study draws on a broad range of approaches to its subject. The book begins with a look at the legacy of the Marine Corps on the eve of Pearl Harbor, and then turns to gender studies to shed light on the methods of "making" marines. At the heart of the book are close examinations of how three broad categories of myth and imagination directly affected the First Division's campaigns on Guadalcanal, Peleiu, and Okinawa.
520 8 $aThe study concludes by considering what happened to the myths and images of the Pacific War in the Korean War, and how they have been preserved in American Society up to the present.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bMarine Corps.$bMarine Division, 1st.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97056381
650 0 $aWar$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145124
650 0 $aWar$xMythology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145122
852 00 $bglx$hVE23.22 1st$i.C36 1994