John Grenier (Independent Scholar)

The First Way of War

American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780521732635
• ISBN-10: 0521732638
• Artikelnr.: 23882656

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The First Way of War's origins in Colonial America
2. The First Way of War in the North American wars of King George II, 1739-55
3. Continental and British Petite Guerre, circa 1750
4. The First Way of War in the Seven Years' War, 1754-63
5. The First Way of War in the era of the American Revolution
6. The First Way of War in the 1790s
7. The First Way of War and the final conquest of the transappalachian West.