689 Pages
by
Routledge
689 Pages
by
Routledge
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This unprecedented compilation provides the fullest examination anywhere available of the crucial social-political and strategic and policy-level issues of American military history between the Revolution and the Civil War: civil-military relations and the military‘s place in American society and politics; westward expansion and the diverse peacetime missions assigned the military, especially... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Part I General: The United States army and the institution of slavery in Louisiana, 1803-35, Tommy R. Young II. Part II 1784-1815: The role of the army in western settlement: Josiah Harmar's command, 1785-90, Alan S. Brown; General Charles Scott, the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers, and the Northwest Indian Wars, 1784-94, Paul David Nelson; General Josiah Harmar's campaign reconsidered: how the Americans lost the Battle of Kekionga, Michael S. Warner; General Wilkinson's vendetta with General Wayne: politics and command in the American Army, 1791-96, Richard H. Kohn; Jefferson, Meriweather Lewis, and the reduction of the United States Army, Donald D. Jackson; The antinavalists: the opponents of naval expansion in the early national period, Craig L. Symonds; James Madison and the coercion of Great Britain, Canada, the West Indies, and the War of 1812, J.C.A. Stagg; The fog and friction of Frontier War: the role of logistics in American offensive failure during the War of 1812, Jeffrey Kimball; High army leadership in the era of the War of 1812: the making and remaking of the Officer Corps, William B. Skelton. Part III 1815-1846: 'Nature unsubdued': diplomacy, expansion and the American military buildup of 1815-16, Michael S. Fitzgerald; Calhoun's expansible army: the history of a military idea, Roger J. Spiller; The army and the Indians, 1800-30 - a reappraisal: the Missouri Valley example, Roger L. Nichols; The 'Foxardo affair' revisited: porter, pirates and the problem of civilian authority in the Early Republic, Michael Birkner; Negroes and the second Seminole War, 1835-42, Kenneth Wiggens Porter; 'Some prefer the Seminoles': violence and disorder among soldiers and settlers in the second Seminole War, 1835-42, James M. Denham; General John E. Wool in Cherokee Country, 1836-37: a reinterpretation, Lawrence M. Hauptman; The origins of the Fr nt expeditions: John J. Abert and the scientific exploration of the Trans-Miss
Biography
Samuel Watson
