| The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814 Contributor(s): Grenier, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521732638 ISBN-13: 9780521732635 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: This book shows how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans' employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 355.009 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans' employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Grenier, John: - John Grenier is an independent scholar. The First Way of War won the 2007 Society for Military History award as the Outstanding Book in American History. He is also the author of The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760 (2008). |