Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War
By Eliot A. Cohen.
Description
Americans often think of the Civil War as the conflict that consolidated the United States, including its military values and practices. But there was another, earlier, and more protracted struggle between “North” and “South,” beginning in the 1600s and lasting for more than two centuries, that shaped American geopolitics and military culture. Here, Eliot A. Cohen explains how the American way of war emerged from a lengthy struggle with an unlikely enemy: Canada. In Conquered into Liberty, Cohen describes how five peoples—the British, French, Americans, Canadia...
ISBN(s)
0743249909, 9780743249904
