George W. Goethals and the Army : Change and Continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era /

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"George W. Goethals (1858-1928) played a substantial role in bringing to a conclusion a decades-long process of military reform that stretched from late-nineteenth-century experiments with postgraduate military education to the ultimate realization of the potential of those reforms immediately...

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Autor principal: McGovern, Rory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Goethals, George W. > (George Washington), > 1858-1928.
United States. > Army. > Corps of Engineers.
United States. > Army.
États-Unis. > Army > Histoire > 19e siecle.
États-Unis. > Army > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States. > Army. > Corps of Engineers > History > 20th century.
United States. > Army. > Corps of Engineers > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > History > 20th century.
Transportation.
Generals.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Transport > États-Unis.
Generaux > États-Unis > Biographies.
World War, 1914-1918 > Transportation > United States.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States.
Panama > Panama Canal.
Panama Canal (Panama) > Design and construction.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"George W. Goethals (1858-1928) played a substantial role in bringing to a conclusion a decades-long process of military reform that stretched from late-nineteenth-century experiments with postgraduate military education to the ultimate realization of the potential of those reforms immediately before and during World War II. Rory McGovern uses Goethals's career as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the US Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780700627714

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