American Military History: The Early Period, 16074815
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periods of American military history to the end of World War II. ...... American Adventure (197Oj portrays with considerable sym- ...
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Chapter 7 American Military History: The Early Period, 16074815 Robert W. Coakley THIS chapter and the tMio that folio-w deal with individual periods of American military history to the end of World War II. As an introduction the student needs to know something of the writings on the whole course of that history and of the principal themes and controversies that historians and writers have developed in dealing with it. These topics can be dealt with only briefly. To the earliest American historians, military history was not considered a fieid separate from that of the general history of the United States. George Bancroft, the most noted of the nineteenth-century group, contributed a great deal to the mil- itary as well as political history of America. And if his simplis- tic belief in the story of America as the triumph of liberty under divine guidance no longer appeals to the critical mind of the twentieth century, Bancroft still left an important legacy to historians of all phases of American life, including the military. His successors in writing general histories of the United States-men like Justin Winsor, John B. McMaster, Richard Hildreth, and Edward Channing-likewise did not ‘neglect military history. The general run of analytical and “scientific” historians of the early twentieth century, however, shifted the focus away from military events and institutions to the social and economic structure beneath political development. Aca- demic historians of the 1gZQs and 1930s were apt to stress the causes and consequences of war to the exclusion of either the course of American wars or military institutions as a part of American life. Only after World War II was the balance in some measure redressed. Around the turn of the twentieth century, then, military history became to some extent divorced from general American Dr. Coakley (Ph.D., Virginia] is Deputy Chief Historian of the Center of Military History and coauthor of two volumes on Global ...
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