A scientific way of war : antebellum military science, West Point, and the origins of American military thought

A scientific way of war : antebellum military science, West Point, and the origins of American military thought /

While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study o...

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Main Author: Hope, Ian C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Series:Studies in war, society, and the military.
Subjects:
United States Military Academy > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > Officers > Training of > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army
United States Military Academy
1800-1899
Military art and science > United States > History > 19th century.
Military education > United States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Armed Forces > Officers > Training of
Military art and science
Military education
United States
History
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