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Military Realism

The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army

Peter Campbell

University of Missouri Press, 2019

After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution of army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008.

In five case studies of U.S. Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas—nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions—and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict. He demonstrates that decision makers, while vowing in the wake of Vietnam to avoid (COIN) missions, nonetheless found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of fighting “low intensity” conflicts. In essence, he demonstrates that pragmatism has won out over dogmatism. At a time when American policymakers remain similarly conflicted about future defense strategies, Campbell’s work will undoubtedly shape and guide the debate.

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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatres of War

Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

University of Alabama Press, 2014

Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.

War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition of Theatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of work by thirteen innovative scholars whose work explores such topics as theatre performances during war times, theatre written and performed to resist war, and theatre that fosters and promotes war.

The contributors to this volume write poignantly about nationhood and about how war—through both propaganda and protest—defines a people. The contributors also delve into numerous fascinating themes that transcend time, peoples, nations, and particular conflicts: the foundations of nationalism and the concepts of occupied and occupier, nostalgia and utopia, and patriotism and revolution.

These essays survey a march of civil and international wars spanning three centuries. Arranged chronologically, they invite comparisons between themes and trace the development of the major themes of war. Ideas manifest in the theatre of one period recall ideologies and propaganda of the past, reflect those of the present, and anticipate wars to come.

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Theatre History Studies 2018, Vol. 37

Sara Freeman

University of Alabama Press, 2018

Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES, VOLUME 37

STEFAN AQUILINA
Meyerhold and The Revolution: A Reading through Henri Lefebvre’s Theories on “Everyday Life”

VIVIAN APPLER
“Shuffled Together under the Name of a Farce”: Finding Nature in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon

KRISTI GOOD
Kate Soffel’s Life of Crime: A Gendered Journey from Warden’s Wife to Criminal Actress

PETER A. CAMPBELL
Staging Ajax’s Suicide: A Historiography

BRIAN E. G. COOK
Rousing Experiences: Theatre, Politics, and Change

MEGAN LEWIS
Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes: Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and the Consequences of Staging the Colonial Gaze

PATRICIA GABORIK
Taking the Theatre to the People: Performance Sponsorship and Regulation in Mussolini’s Italy

ILINCA TODORUT AND ANTHONY SORGE
To Image and to Imagine: Walid Raad, Rabih Mouré, and the Arab Spring

SHULAMITH LEV-ALADGEM
Where Has the Political Theatre in Israel Gone? Rethinking the Concept of Political Theatre Today

CHRISTINE WOODWORTH
“Equal Rights By All Means!”: Beatrice Forbes-Robertson’s 1910 Suffrage Matinee and the Onstage Junction of the US And UK Franchise Movements

LURANA DONNELS O’MALLEY
“Why I Wrote the Phyllis Wheatley Pageant-Play”: Mary Church Terrell’s Bicentennial Activism

JULIET GUZZETTA
The Lasting Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame

ASHLEY E. LUCAS
Chavez Ravine: Culture Clash and the Political Project of Rewriting History

NOE MONTEZ
The Heavy Lifting: Resisting the Obama Presidency’s Neoliberalist Conceptions of the American Dream in Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

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Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39

Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

University of Alabama Press, 2020

Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES, VOLUME 38

PART I: Studies in Theatre History

MATTHIEU CHAPMAN
Red, White, and Black: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Structuring of Racial Antagonisms in Early Modern England and the New World

MICHAEL CHEMERS AND MICHAEL SELL
Sokyokuchi: Toward a Theory, History, and Practice of Systemic Dramaturgy

JEFFREY ULLOM
The Value of Inaction: Unions, Labor Codes, and the Cleveland Play House

CHRYSTYNA DAIL
When for “Witches” We Read “Women”: Advocacy and Ageism in Nineteenth-Century Salem Witchcraft Plays

MICHAEL DENNIS
The Lost and Found Playwright: Donald Ogden Stewart and the Theatre of Socialist Commitment

Part II: HEMISPHERIC HISTORIOGRAPHIES

EMILY SAHAKIAN, CHRISTIANA MOLLDREM HARKULICH, AND LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA
Introduction to the Special Section

PATRICIA YBARRA
Gestures toward a Hemispheric Theatre History: A Work in Progress

ERIC MAYER- GARCÍA
Thinking East and West in Nuestra América: Retracing the Footprints of a Latinx Teatro Brigade in Revolutionary Cuba

ANA OLIVAREZ-LEVINSON AND ERIC MAYER-GARCÍA
Intercambio: A Visual History of Nuevo Teatro from the Ana Olivarez-Levinson Photography Collection

JESSICA N. PABÓN-COLÓN
Digital Diasporic Tactics for a Decolonized Future: Tweeting in the Wake of #HurricaneMaria

LEO CABRANES-GRANT
Performance, Cognition, and the Quest for an Affective Historiography

Part III: Essays from the Conference

The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, from the 2019 Mid-America Theatre Conference

JULIE BURRELL
Reinventing Reconstruction and Scripting Civil Rights in Theodore Ward’s Our Lan’

The Robert A. Schanke Honorable Mention Essay, MATC 2019

MATTHEW MCMAHAN

Projections of Race at the Nouveau Cirque: The Clown Acts of Foottit and Chocolat

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