{"id":47083,"date":"2025-06-24T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47083"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:01:31","slug":"richard-beck-homeland-the-war-on-terror-in-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47083","title":{"rendered":"Richard Beck, \u201eHomeland: The War on Terror in American Life\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A groundbreaking history of how the \u2018war on terror\u2019 changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the nature of citizenship to the cars Americans bought and the TV they watched<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas, Americans found themselves living in two worlds at the same time. In one of them, soldiers fought abroad so that nothing at home would have to change at all. In the other, life in the United States took on all kinds of unfamiliar shapes, altering people\u2019s sense of themselves, their neighbours, and the strangers they sat next to on aeroplanes.<br><br>In a fascinating and exhaustive account of the meaning of twenty-first-century America, Richard Beck delivers a gripping exploration of the transformation of American life wrought by the war. He describes sports stadiums fortified to look like military bases. The surging sales of guns, SUVs, and pickup trucks. The racism and xeno-phobia, the erosion of free speech, and the normalisation of mass surveillance. Beck searchingly asks why those Americans who excused the worst abuses of the war on terror also had the easiest time understanding themselves as patriots. The war fuelled an impunity culture, he argues, that came to a head with Trump\u2019s rise to power. To see America through the lens of <em>Homeland <\/em>is to understand the country like never before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>592 pages \/ March 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-ugradnja wp-block-embed-ugradnja\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/3386-homeland\">Homeland<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Beck.jpg?fit=423%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52742,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52742","url_meta":{"origin":47083,"position":0},"title":"The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global \u201cPostwar\u201d Decade, Washington, DC, 25th\u201326th February 2027 (Deadline: 12th June 2026)","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"4. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"This international conference aims to reassess the so-called postwar years. 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