| Description |
xx, 460 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. |
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Modern war studies |
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Modern war studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the soldier and the nineteenth-century American state : insulation, autonomy, and agency -- Confidence, belligerence, and insubordination : Army operations along the Texan and maritime frontiers of Louisiana, 1810-1814 -- The Army asserts American hegemony on the Florida frontier : from the Creek War to the destruction of the Negro Fort, 1813-1816 -- The tensions of aggression and accountability : military expansionism in the Gulf borderlands, 1815-1817 -- Concluding the quasi-war with Spain : civil-military tensions, the occupation of Amelia Island, and the "First Seminole War," 1817-1818 -- Jackson and Gaines get their way : civil-military friction over the invasion of Florida, Indian relations, and filibustering against Texas, 1817-1821 -- Assessing national military expansion on the western frontier to 1825 : political and diplomatic ebb and flow in Army operations on the Plains -- The growth of professional accountability during the 1820s and 1830s : contexts, policies, and causation-domestic and international -- Conclusion : the soldier and the Jacksonian state: the Military Academy, Army missions, and political acceptance in an age of democratization. |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- Officers -- History -- 19th century.
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Southern States -- History, Military -- 19th century.
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
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Civil-military relations -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Military leadership.
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| ISBN |
9780700618842 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0700618848 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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