A Standing Army, the Role of National Government, and the Constitution -- The Army and Muscular Nationalism: Nation-Building and the Federalists -- The Army and the Rise of the Jeffersonians -- President Madison's Army -- The Army and the New Nationalism -- Mr. Jackson's Army -- An Uncertain Future -- Regulars and the Continuing Quest for Empire -- New Challenges for the Old Army -- Regulars and the Crisis of Union -- An Elusive Peace -- Continued Challenges South and West -- The Army of the Gilded Age -- Epilogue -- Old Army, New Empire.
Summary:
"In this book, Robert Wooster provides a comprehensive history of the United States Army from its inception during the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War. He integrates the institutional history of the Army with larger trends in US history, with a special focus on state building and civil-military relations. This will be the definitive book on the US Army's relationship with the nation during the nineteenth century. It will be of interest to military and non-military historians alike, and will be an especially valuable text for course assignments at the undergraduate and graduate levels"-- Provided by publisher.
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