Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military history, from the colonial era to the present, exploring a variety of connections between war, military institutions, and American society, politics, economics, and culture, in chronological, topical, and thematic essays. The essays feature holistic analytic narratives, with a strong emphasis on connections, interpretation, and insights by leading scholars with extensive experience teaching American and military history. Many of the authors are rising experts, with new perspectives and insights; many have served in the military or taught in institutions of professional military education.
The Oxford Handbook of American Military History explains the contexts, causes, conduct, and consequences of armed conflict, and their contingency and complexity. It evaluates the significance of American conflicts to military history and the history of warfare (for example, in innovations); links, parallels, or distinctions from European military history; the influence of American society on warfare and military institutions; and the impact of warfare and armed conflict on American society. The handbook explores cultural sources, dimensions, and effects of armed conflict and military institutions; the links between state, society and war; and structures as well as contingencies-patterns and dynamics, trends and trajectories over extended periods, identifying some surprising connections. The Oxford Handbook of American Military History will encourage students and scholars to see military history more broadly, in many contexts, while remaining grounded in the study of military policy and institutions, strategy and operations, and tactics and combat.
Contents
About the Editor
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Samuel J. Watson
Section One: Wars and Other Armed Conflicts
1. The Colonial/Imperial Era, 1600-1763
Matthew C. Muehlbauer
2. Three Wars of American Independence, 1775-1783
Daniel Krebs
3. The War of 1812
Richard V. Barbuto
4. Expansion and Empire, 1784-1860
John W. Hall
5. The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
Irving W. Levinson
6. The Civil War
Earl J. Hess
7. The Greater Reconstruction: The United States Army, Expansion, and Empire, 1848-1890
Catharine R. Franklin
8. Imperial Interventions Abroad, 1890-1933
Elaine Tillman
9. The First World War at Home and Abroad
Mark E. Grotelueschen and Derek Varble
10. The Second World War
Steve R. Waddell
11. The Cold War
Adrian R. Lewis
12. The War in Korea
Bryan R. Gibby
13. The War in Vietnam
Ron Milam
14. The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Rise and Demise of the Pax Americana
Conrad Crane
Section Two: Themes
15. The Citizen-Soldier
Ricardo A. Herrera
16. The Army
Samuel J. Watson
17. The U.S. Army's Military Thought Up to the Great War for the Middle East
Brian McAllister Linn
18. The Navy and Naval Power
Craig L. Symonds
19. Air Power and the U.S. Air Force
Mark Clodfelter
20. Native American Warfare
Robert N. Watt
21. Irregular Warfare
Paul J. Springer
22. Soldiers and Civilians: Experiences of Battle and War
Christopher Hamner
23. Inclusion and Exclusion
Kara Dixon Vuic
24. The Environment and American Military History
Lisa M. Brady
25. Science, Technology, and American Military History
Timothy S. Wolters
26. Religion and American Military History
Jacqueline E. Whitt
27. War and Politics
Ethan S. Rafuse
28. Civil-Military Relations and Militarism
Paul D. Escott
29. War and the State
Mark R. Wilson
30. Social Movements and the Military
Beth Bailey
31. Law and Ethics in American Military Institutions and Operations
Fred L. Borch
32. War and American Memory
Frank J. Wetta
Index
