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The Progressive Army

US Army Command and Administration, 1870–1914

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  • © 1998

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  1. Ronald J. Barr
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Towards A New Century

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 1-23

  3. ‘No End of a Lesson’: America and the Spanish-American War

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 24-48

  4. Early Army Reform and the Election of 1900

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 49-75

  5. The Emergence of a New International Order

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 76-99

  6. Root’s Army Reforms

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 100-122

  7. America and the Continued Extension of the White Man’s Burden

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 123-151

  8. International Suspicion and Fear of Japan: 1905–1908

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 152-176

  9. Military Preparedness and the Emergence of the New Citizen Army: 1909–1914

    • Ronald J. Barr
    Pages 177-201

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 202-223
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The author seeks to explain the creation of a modern American Army in a country hostile to centralised military power. The effect of various European nations on the US military are examined. The central theme, however, is how a small number of influential figures impressed with US business borrowed management techniques from national corporations to modernise the army. It is argued these military reforms represented a wider influence in the progressive era which sought to utilise management techniques developed by US business to improve government.

About the author

Ronald J. Barr is Lecturer in History at University College Chester.

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