The Citizen Soldiers : The Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920 /

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The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York. It also illuminates the story of two exceptional men: General Leonard Wood, the rambunctious and controversial former Rough Rider who gal...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clifford, J. Garry (John Garry), 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Edition:New edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Draft > United States > History > 20th century.
Military education > United States > History > 20th century.
Plattsburgh Barracks (N.Y.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • General Wood--the beginning
  • World War I & preparedness
  • Plattsburg & 'our kind of people'
  • The Military Training Camps Association
  • The National Defense Act of 1916
  • The 1916 camps
  • The Plattsburg philosophy & universal military training
  • The MTCA & the war
  • Postwar policy & the National Defense Act of 1920
  • Epilogue.

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