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George W. Goethals and the Army : change and continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era /

George W. Goethals (1858-1928) played a substantial role in bringing to a conclusion a decades-long process of military reform that stretched from late-nineteenth-century experiments with postgraduate military education to the ultimate realization of the potential of those reforms immediately before...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGovern, Rory (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
Subjects:
Goethals, George W. > (George Washington), > 1858-1928.
United States. > Army > History > 20th century.
United States. > Army > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army. > Corps of Engineers > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army. > Corps of Engineers > History > 20th century.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Panama Canal (Panama) > Design and construction.
World War, 1914-1918 > Transportation > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Education
  • The school of experience
  • War, reform, and resistance
  • Making the dirt fly
  • Crisis
  • Resolution
  • Epilogue.