Bodies for Battle: US Army Physical Culture and Systematic Training, 1885-1957 Gatzemeyer Garrett
Bodies for Battle: US Army Physical Culture and Systematic Training, 1885-1957 Gatzemeyer Garrett Physical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history. The US Army's physical culture…
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Bodies for Battle: US Army Physical Culture and Systematic Training, 1885-1957 Gatzemeyer Garrett
Physical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history. The US Army's physical culture assumed a unity of mind and body; learning a physical act was not just physical but also mental and social. Bodies for Battle by Garrett Gatzemeyer is the first in-depth analysis of the US Army's particular set of practices and values, known as its physical culture, that emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to tactical challenges and widespread anxieties over diminishing masculinity.
Bodies for Battle is a study of how the US Army developed modern, scientific training methods in response to concerns about entering a competitive imperial world where embodied nations battled for survival in a Social Darwinist framework. Physical training and exercise could therefore develop the whole individual, even societies. This book connects social and cultural worries