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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Harry M Ward |
ISBN: | 9781933146577 1933146575 |
OCLC Number: | 244055291 |
Description: | xi, 353 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Freedom -- Allegiance -- Banishment/detention -- Sedition -- Treason/war crimes -- God and country -- Beyond glory -- Conscription -- Military service exemptions -- Civilians under military jurisdiction -- Standing army -- Conquest -- Imperialism/liberation -- Limited war mentality -- The military advantage -- Triumph of professionalism -- The brutal fringe -- Counterinsurgency -- Cement of union -- Conclusion/redirection. |
Responsibility: | Harry M. Ward. |
Abstract:
This book discusses the legacies of American Revolutionary War in the context of growing American imperial hubris, overreach and permanent war abroad as well as economic and social decay of American homeland. It discusses the less admirable and tragic implications of a national war/civil war that drove many thousands of Americans from their country, destroyed numerous Native American societies, enshrined human slavery in its constitution and lead to several tragic and bloody existential crises in 19th and 20th century American history.
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