The United States Army and the Making of America From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903 / Robert Wooster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wooster, Robert, 1956- author.

Series:

Studies in Civil-Military Relations Series

Studies in civil-military relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

United States--History, Military.

United States. Army.

United States. Army--History.

Genre:

Military history.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 479 pages) : illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]

Summary:

"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 US history, with a special focus on state building and civil-military relations. This will be the definitive book on the US Army's relationship with the nation during the nineteenth century. It will be of interest to military and non-military historians alike, and will be an especially valuable text for course assignments at the undergraduate and graduate levels"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-3065-1

OCLC:

1263021924