Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Financing Armed Conflict, Volume 1

Resourcing US Military Interventions from the Revolution to the Civil War

  • Book
  • © 2017

Overview

Authors:
  1. Thomas M. Meagher

    1. Armstrong State University, Savannah, USA

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Provides a comprehensive analysis of military finance and policy throughout US history, covering in this volume the period from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War
  • Analyzes military spending from multiple viewpoints, drawing from policy studies, strategic studies, history, and military studies
  • Offers a sweeping and practical perspective from a scholar with extensive experience in security, finance, and academia

  • 1858 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Defining U.S. Strategic Resourcing Culture

    • Thomas M. Meagher
    Pages 1-48

  3. Washington, Morris, and Resourcing the American Revolution

    • Thomas M. Meagher
    Pages 49-103

  4. Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin and the Resourcing of the War of 1812

    • Thomas M. Meagher
    Pages 105-184

  5. Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and Resourcing the Mexican–American War

    • Thomas M. Meagher
    Pages 185-237

  6. Hamiltonian Federalism and Union Resourcing of the Civil War

    • Thomas M. Meagher
    Pages 239-319

  7. Jeffersonian Republicanism and Resourcing the Civil War

    • Thomas M. Meagher
    Pages 321-354

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 355-383
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America’s major armed conflicts, offering useful case studies for students of military history and spending policy, policymakers, military comptrollers, and officers in training.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Armstrong State University, Savannah, USA

    Thomas M. Meagher

About the author

Thomas M. Meagher is Adjunct Professor at Armstrong State University, USA.  He spent twenty-five years in the national security field, including time as an active duty Army officer, ten years in financial analysis and investor relations positions in the defense industry, and another decade as an award-winning Wall Street equity research analyst following publicly traded defense and government services contractors. He is currently researching and writing a complementary two part volume on resourcing European and Asian Military Interventions from the War of the Spanish Succession to World War Two.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation