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Culture, Power, and Security provides a timely collection of essays by a diverse group of historians grappling with the notion of ""security"" in different temporal and geographical contexts. The authors, ranging from senior scholars – including an award-winning military historian – to relative newcomers, examine a variety of new topics or ask new questions of older ones in the areas of religious, political, intelligence, military and foreign relations history. Drawing upon new approaches or archival sources, each author offers fresh perspectives and insight into the nature of national or international security, broadly conceived.This unique collection of essays, engagingly written and reflecting state-of-the-art scholarship, will be of value both to general readers and students of military history, diplomatic history and national and international security studies.

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Mary Kathryn Barbier is an Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University. She is the author of D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion and the co-editor of America's Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation.Richard V. Damms is an Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University. He is the author of The Eisenhower Presidency, 1953–1961 and Scientists and Statesmen: President Eisenhower's Science Advisers and National Security Policy (forthcoming).

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