Author: Thomas WILSON (of Philadelphia.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Biography of the Principal American Military and Naval Heroes
Author: Thomas Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military biography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military biography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Biography of the Principal American Military and Naval Heroes; Comprehending Details of Their Achievements During the Revolutionary and Late Wars
Author: Thomas WILSON (of Philadelphia.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The United States Army and the Making of America
Author: Robert Wooster
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700630643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 is the story of how the American military—and more particularly the regular army—has played a vital role in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States that extended beyond the battlefield. Repeatedly, Americans used the army not only to secure their expanding empire and fight their enemies, but to shape their nation and their vision of who they were, often in ways not directly associated with shooting wars or combat. That the regular army served as nation-builders is ironic, given the officer corps’ obsession with a warrior ethic and the deep-seated disdain for a standing army that includes Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and debates regarding congressional appropriations. Whether the issue concerned Indian policy, the appropriate division of power between state and federal authorities, technology, transportation, communications, or business innovations, the public demanded that the military remain small even as it expected those forces to promote civilian development. Robert Wooster’s exhaustive research in manuscript collections, government documents, and newspapers builds upon previous scholarship to provide a coherent and comprehensive history of the U.S. Army from its inception during the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War. Wooster integrates its institutional history with larger trends in American history during that period, with a special focus on state-building and civil-military relations. The United States Army and the Making of America will be the definitive book on the army’s relationship with the nation from its founding to the dawn of the twentieth century and will be a valuable resource for a generation of undergraduates, graduate students, and virtually any scholar with an interest in the U.S. Army, American frontiers and borderlands, the American West, or eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nation-building.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700630643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 is the story of how the American military—and more particularly the regular army—has played a vital role in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States that extended beyond the battlefield. Repeatedly, Americans used the army not only to secure their expanding empire and fight their enemies, but to shape their nation and their vision of who they were, often in ways not directly associated with shooting wars or combat. That the regular army served as nation-builders is ironic, given the officer corps’ obsession with a warrior ethic and the deep-seated disdain for a standing army that includes Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and debates regarding congressional appropriations. Whether the issue concerned Indian policy, the appropriate division of power between state and federal authorities, technology, transportation, communications, or business innovations, the public demanded that the military remain small even as it expected those forces to promote civilian development. Robert Wooster’s exhaustive research in manuscript collections, government documents, and newspapers builds upon previous scholarship to provide a coherent and comprehensive history of the U.S. Army from its inception during the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War. Wooster integrates its institutional history with larger trends in American history during that period, with a special focus on state-building and civil-military relations. The United States Army and the Making of America will be the definitive book on the army’s relationship with the nation from its founding to the dawn of the twentieth century and will be a valuable resource for a generation of undergraduates, graduate students, and virtually any scholar with an interest in the U.S. Army, American frontiers and borderlands, the American West, or eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nation-building.
A Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American History (1600-1800) in the City of New York
Author: Evarts Boutell Greene
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Codicology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Codicology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography
The American Blue Book of Biography
The American Biography
Author: Amos Blanchard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
American Blue-book of Biography
Author: Thomas William Herringshaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography
Encyclopedia of American Biography
Author: Winfield Scott Downs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description