The Military and United States Indian Policy 1865-1903 (Yale Western Americana Series) - Hardcover

Wooster, Robert Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300039727 ISBN 13: 9780300039726

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, 1988

Synopsis

Analyzes the government's strategic policy against American Indian tribes in the years immediately following the Civil War

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Wooster, an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, is the author of Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army (Nebraska 1993).

Review:

“A model of analytical history. In . . . spare, cogent prose, Wooster delineates military strategy against the western tribes, places the political influence of the Gilded Age military establishment in solid perspective, gives an able survey of the institutional structure of the postwar army, briefly describes key Indian campaigns, and presents pithy characterizations of leading western military personalities. . . . Wooster’s book places events in a national, and in military terms international, context. In so doing he has made a major contribution to frontier and military scholarship.”—Paul Andrew Hutton, American Historical Review (Paul Andrew Hutton American Historical Review)

“A superior and important book. . . . [Wooster] succinctly identifies and illumines significant truths about the military establishment and its role in the final stages of confrontation and conflict along the western Indian frontier.”—Robert M. Utley, Journal of American History (Robert M. Utley Journal of American History)

“A provocative example of the new historiography. . . . Students of the Indian wars have frequently suffered from a form of myopia. . . until now, no one has undertaken so comprehensive or critical a look at the army’s role in formulating and implementing Indian policy.”—Bruce Dinges, New Mexico Historical Review (Bruce Dinges New Mexico Historical Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0300039727
• ISBN 13: 9780300039726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268