The Progressive Army: US Army Command and Administration, 1870-1914

by Ronald J. Barr

Book Overview

The author seeks to explain the creation of a modern American Army in a country hostile to centralised military power. The effect of various European nations on the US military are examined. The central theme, however, is how a small number of influential figures impressed with US business borrowed management techniques from national corporations to modernise the army. It is argued these military reforms represented a wider influence in the progressive era which sought to utilise management techniques developed by US business to improve government.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349268909
• ISBN13: 9781349268900
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"