This volume traces the evolution of the American military, its institutions, strategic doctrines, and technology. The selections provide a social and institutional focus of the "new" military history, and follow the metamorphosis of the militia, the professionalization of the officers' corps, and the course of civilian control of the military.
Drawing on contemporary scholarship in the field, "The Oxford Companion to American Military History" is a comprehensive one-volume guide to the study of war, peace and the military throughout American history. With 1000 alphabetically arranged entries, each written by a noted scholar, this work examines America's military past from the colonial ...
Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar 19th century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities. In this book, the author incorporates the social, cultural, political and economic changes which ...
The immediacy and perceived truth of the visual image, as well as film and television's ability to propel viewers back into the past, place the genre of the historical film in a special category. War films-including antiwar films-have established the prevailing public image of war in the twentieth century. For American audiences, the dominant ...
This text offers an interpretation of the relationship between the peace movement and US foreign policy in America's formative years as a world power. It indicates the peace movement's significant influence upon American attitudes and its varying impact upon US foreign and defence policies.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press,
Date Published: 1999.
Description: Near mint condition green cloth thick 8vo. (4 pages are slightly wrinkled due to paper clips which had marked them), bright gilt to spine. In mint illustrated green d.j.; interior is like new. Index, 916 pp. American Military History. MIL/6203. read more
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The Oxford Companion to United States History
by
Paul S Boyer (Editor), Melvyn Debofsky (Editor), Eric H Monkkonen (Editor)
