First Way of War American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814

Name: First Way of War American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814
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ISBN: 9780521732635

ISBN-10: 0521732638

ISBN-13: 9780521732635

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Grenier

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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.

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.704

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).



Introduction



The First Way of War's origins in Colonial America



The First Way of War in the North American wars of King George II, 1739ndash;1755



Continental and British Petite Guerre, circa 1750



The First Way of War in the Seven Years' War, 1754ndash;1763



The First Way of War in the era of the American Revolution



The First Way of War in the 1790s



The First Way of War and the final conquest of the transappalachian West