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The first way of war : American war making on the frontier, 1607-1814
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Publisher description: This book explores the evolution of American war, showing how the first war waged against Indian noncombatant populations and their agricultural resources became the standard...
Publisher description: This book explores the evolution of American war, showing how the first war waged against Indian noncombatant populations and their agricultural resources became the standard method of war employed by early Americans and which ultimately defined their military heritage. The bloodthirsty American conquest of Indian communities east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.
Details
- Creator
- John Grenier
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps
- ISBNs
- 9780511109928, 0511121903, 9780511817847, 051110992X, 0521845661, 9780521732635, 9780521845663, 0511817843, 9780511121906
- OCLC
- ocm59655870
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The first way of war's origins in Colonial America -- The first way of war in the North American Wars of King George II, 1739-1755 -- Continential and British Petite Guerre, circa 1750 -- The first way of war in the seven years' war, 1754-1763 -- The first way of war in the era of the American Revolution -- The first way of war in the 1790s -- The first way of war and the final conquest of the Transappalachian West
Subjects
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1600-1750.
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1750-1815.
- Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Indians of North America -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.