Warfare in the USA 1784-1861
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Warfare in the USA 1784-1861
（The international library of essays on military history）
Ashgate, c2005
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Description
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 constabulary missions and operations; force structure, mobilization and the formation of military strategy in support of national objectives; and military preparedness, administration, reform and professionalization. The introduction links all of these issues, pointing to the increasing scale, scope and organization and the growing dominance of national forces in American military institutions and operations during this important period.
Table of 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 Fremont expeditions: John J. Abert and the scientific exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West, Vernon L. Volpe
- Army officers' attitudes towards Indians, 1830 - 60, William B. Skelton
- Officers and politicians: the origins of army politics in the United States before the Civil War, William B. Skelton
- Professionalization in the US Army Officer Corps during the age of Jackson, William B. Skelton
- Knowledge, interest, and the limits of military professionalism: the discourse on American coastal defense, 1815 - 60, Samuel J. Watson
- Manifest destiny and military professionalism: junior United States Army officers' attitudes toward war with Mexico, 1844 - 46, Samuel J. Watson
- US Army officers fight the 'Patriot War': responses to filibustering on the Canadian border, 1837 - 39, Samuel J. Watson
- Part IV 1846 - 1861: Young American males and filibustering in the age of manifest destiny: the United States Army as a cultural mirror, Robert E. May
- Filibusters and regular troops in San Francisco, 1851 - 55, Durwood Ball
- The struggle between sectionalism and nationalism at ante-bellum West Point 1830-1861, James L. Morrison Jr.
- 'The velvet glove': the army during the Secession crisis in California, 1860 - 61, Robert J. Chandler
- Former Whigs in conflict: Winfield Scott, Abraham Lincoln, and the Secession crisis revisited, Ethan S. Rafuse
- Name Index.
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