The United States Army and the making of America : from confederation to empire, 1775-1903 /
In this book, Robert Wooster provides a comprehensive history of the United States Army from its inception during the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War. He integrates the institutional history of the Army with larger trends in American history, with a special focus on state building...
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| Language: | English |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
[2021]
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| Series: | Studies in civil-military relations.
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Table of Contents:
- A Standing Army, the Role of National Government, and the Constitution
- The Army and Muscular Nationalism: Nation-Building and the Federalists
- The Army and the Rise of the Jeffersonians
- President Madison's Army
- The Army and the New Nationalism
- Mr. Jackson's Army
- An Uncertain Future
- Regulars and the Continuing Quest for Empire
- New Challenges for the Old Army
- Regulars and the Crisis of Union
- An Elusive Peace
- Continued Challenges South and West
- The Army of the Gilded Age
- Epilogue
- Old Army, New Empire.