The Regulars : : The American Army, 1898–1941 /

The Regulars : : The American Army, 1898–1941 / / Edward M. Coffman.

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In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Coffman, Edward M.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004]
©2007
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (528 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue
  • ONE The Army Begins a New Era
  • TWO The Colonial Army
  • THREE Life and Training in the Philippines
  • FOUR Enlisted Men in the New Army
  • FIVE The Managerial Revolution
  • SIX The War to End All Wars
  • SEVEN The Army in Limbo
  • EIGHT Soldiering in the 1920s and 1930s
  • NINE The Army in Pacific Outposts, 1919–1940
  • TEN Mobilizing for War
  • Postscript
  • ESSAY ON SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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