Military in America

by Peter Karsten

Book Overview

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 war over the past three centuries. In this completely revised second edition, new essays explore Napoleonic warfare, the American Civil War, the Plains Wars in the West, the War against Japan, the nuclear arms race, and the War on Terror. The book, while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029191904
• ISBN13: 9780029191903
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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