The Military in America: From the Colonial Era to the Present

by Peter Karsten

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From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002916740X
• ISBN13: 9780029167403
• Release Date: April 1980
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 485 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

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Anthology of History Essays and Analysis of the U.S. Military Until the 1980s

CONTENTS: * Introduction THE COLONIAL ERA 1 - A New Look at Colonial Militia - John W. Shy 2 - Why Did Colonial New Englanders Make Bad Soldiers? - F.W. Anderson 3 - North Carolina Militia Act of 1774 4 - The Boston Press Gang Riot of 1747 5 - A Letter from Samuel Adams THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA 6 - The Social Structure of the New Jersey Brigade: The Continental Line as an American Standing Army - Mark Edward Lender 7 - The Inside History of the Newburgh Conspiracy: America and the Coup d'Etat - Richard H. Kohn 8 - Pennsylvania Revolutionary Officers and the Federal Constitution - William A. Benton THE EARLY REPUBLIC 9 - Excerpt from Governor Samuel Adams's Farewell Address, 1797 10 - Father's Occupation of West Point Cadets and Annapolis Midshipmen 11 - Officers and Politicians: The Origins of Army Politics in the U.S. Before the Civil War - William B. Skelton 12 - A Crisis of Conscience - Ethan Allen Hitchcock 13 - Elmer Ellsworth - Marcus Cunliffe THE CIVIL WAR ERA 14 - Kentucky Volunteers during the Civil War - E. Merton Coulter 15 - Mark Twain and His Comrades Kill 'an Enemy Soldier' - Samuel Clemens 16 - A Study of Morale in Civil War Soldiers - Peter Maslowski 17 - Causes of Confederate Desertion FROM CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR I 18 - Johnson, Stanton, and Grant: A Reconsideration of the Army's Role in the Events Leading to Impeachment - Harold M. Hyman 19 - The Role of the G.A.R. in the Constitutional Crisis of 1867-1868 - Mary R. Dearing 20 - Passages from the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 21- The Connecticut National Guard 22 - The Wisconsin National Guard in the Milwaukee Riots of 1886 - Jerry M. Cooper 23 - Red, White, and the Army Blue: Empathy and Anger in the American West - Thomas C. Leonard 24 - Armed Progressives: The Military Reorganizes for the American Century - Peter Karsten 25 - The Spanish-American War and the Small-Town Community - Gerald Linderman THE ERA OF WORLD WAR I 26 - Conscripting for Colossus: The Progressive Era and the Origin of the Modern Military Draft in the United States in World War I - John Whiteclay Chambers II 27 - Uncle Sam's Little War in the Arkansas Ozarks 28 - The American Military and the Melting Pot in World War I - Bruce White 29 - Reenlistment and Desertion in the Navy, 1900-1940 - Frederick Harrod THE ERA OF WORLD WAR II 30 - Who Volunteered for Service in World War II? - Peter Karsten 31 - Combat Behavior of Infantry Companies - S.L.A. Marshall 32 - American Military Ethics in World War II: The Bombing of German Civilians - Ronald Schaffer 33 - Fifteen-Item Neuropsychiatric Screening Adjunct Scores of Flying Personnel with and Without Combat Flying Experience 34 - A World War II Tailgunner Feels Guilt for Killing Germans 35 - Bill Mauldin Captures the Civilian's View of Combat Vets in 1946 THE COLD WAR YEARS 36 - Troops in Segregated and in Integrated Units Answer a Question About Race Relations, 1951 37 - The Selective Service System: Channeling Manpower 38 - Why