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Argues that the emergence of strong and complicated Puerto Rican national identities is deeply rooted in the long history of colonial military organisations on the island. Harry Franqui-Rivera examines the patterns of inclusion-exclusion within the military and the various forms of citizenship that are subsequently transformed into socioeconomic and political enfranchisement.

For its first eighty-five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meagre presence became the major naval power it remains to this day is the subject of American Naval History, 1607-1865.

Analyzes the impact of European military institutions on Hispanic America in general and examines the putative "Prussianization" of the Chilean army in particular. This title focuses on Chile's attempt to import and assimilate foreign military methods, doctrine, and materiel.

This story about a little-known failed military excursion by the Japanese will appeal to general history readers as well as military history buffs.--John Rodzvilla, Library JournalNear the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift to the west coast of North America. After reaching the mainland, these fu-go, the Japanese hoped, would terrorize American citizens and ignite devastating forest fires across the western states, ultimately causing the United States to divert wartime resources to deal with the domestic crisis. While the fu-go offensive proved to be a complete tactical failure, six Americans lost their lives when a discovered balloon exploded.Ross Coen provides a fascinating look into the obscure history of the fu-go campaign, from the Japanese schoolgirls who manufactured the balloons by hand to the generals in the U.S. War Department who developed defense procedures. The book delves into panic, propaganda, and media censorship in wartime.Fu-go is a compelling story of a little-known episode in our national history that unfolded virtually unseen.

When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like any other. American Journalists in the Great War tells the dramatic stories of the journalists who covered World War I for the American public.

As World War I shaped and moulded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture, even more than its tumultuous revolution. This work shows how World War I changed Russian culture and especially Russian art.

The advent of poison gas in World War I shocked Britons at various levels of society, yet by the end of the conflict their nation was a leader in chemical warfare. This work uncovers the complicated history of this weapon of total war and illustrates the widening involvement of society in warfare.

The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China's long history. On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger is the first Western study to examine in detail the aftermath of the Qing conquest by focusing on the social and demographic effects of the Ming-Qing transition.

Historians depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside. This book demonstrates that, to the contrary, militia remained an active civil institution in early nineteenth century, affecting era's social, political, and economic transitions.

Drawing on hundreds of court-martial transcripts published by the Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces, Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military explores how the American military justice system policed the marital and sexual relationships of the service community in an effort to normalize heterosexual, monogamous marriage as the linchpin of the military's social order.

Examines the legacy of submarine warfare in the American imagination. Combining nautical adventure, military history, and underwater archaeology, Dubbs shares the previously untold story of German submarines and their impact on American culture and reveals their legacy and Americans' attitudes toward this new wonder weapon.

Chronicles the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige

Makes a strong case for the importance of psychological warfare (psywar) in this theater, countering the usual view of fanatical resistance by Japanese units. This title examines the Imperial Army's training, the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese morale, and the Allies' attempts to exploit the Japanese military structure and ethos.

Indian Soldiers in World War I follows the experiences of Indian soldiers deployed to battlefields in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East during World War I; the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers' wartime experiences; and the impacts these had on the British Empire's racial politics.

Deborah Bauer presents the history of French espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their professionalization, arguing that the expansion of surveillance practices reflects a change in understandings of how best to protect the nation.

G. Kurt Piehler underscores the significant institutional and cultural shift in the place of religion in the armed forces during World War II.

Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I. He links the cultural and political history of American war dead to explore the transatlantic and transpacific contexts of America's imperial ambitions.

This collection of essays brings together historians and policy scholars whose chapters offer insight into the ways the U.S. military manages the sexual behaviors, practices, and identities of its service members.

An analysis of West Point's development of military science curriculum in the first half of the nineteenth century and its effect on preparations for, and conduct of, the Civil War.

For more than three decades, the US Army's ""Troop Information"" program used films, radio programs, pamphlets, and lectures to stir patriotism and spark contempt for the enemy. Christopher S. DeRosa examines soldiers' formal political indoctrination, focusing on the political training of draftees and short-term volunteers from 1940 to 1973.

Describes and analyzes the military history of the six key Arab states - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria - during the post-World War II era. This book shows how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the objectives set within constrained political, economic, and social circumstances.

Describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy bomber as their solution to limiting the bloodshed. They were convinced that the airplane, used as a bombing platform, offered the means to make wars less lethal than conflicts waged by armies or navies.

Reveals how Britain's diplomatic and naval authority in the early Victorian period was not circumstantial but rather based on real economic and naval strength as well as on resolute political leadership. The Royal Navy's main role in the nineteenth century was to be a deterrent force, a role it skilfully played.

In this first comprehensive study of the Regular Army in the Civil War, Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader focus primarily on the organisational history of the Regular Army and how it changed as an institution during the war, to emerge afterward as a reorganised and permanently expanded force. The eminent, award-winning military historian Edward M. Coffman provides a foreword.

Offers a study of the propaganda that targeted women and children during World War I.

Japan's war in Asia and the Pacific from 1937 to 1945 remains a subject of great interest, yet the wartime Japanese army remains little understood outside Japan. In a series of searching examinations of the structure, ethos, and goals of the Japanese military establishment, this title offers fresh material on its tactics, operations, and doctrine.

Much research has been done on Western warfare and state building but very little on the military effectiveness of states, until now. Using South Asia as a case study, The State at War in South Asia examines how the state, from prehistory to modern times, has managed to wage war.

The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. This title presents a study of modern Germany's morbid fascination with the war, and shows how the passionate argument over the 'meaning' of the Thirty Years' War shaped the Germans' conception of their nation.