| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
398 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Almost a blasphemer" : citizen-soldiers as neighbors in the early United States -- "A blind lottery" : discipline and justice in the old navy -- "A lawful going home" : conflict and coercion in the Jacksonian military -- "I won't be quiet" : force and consent in the Civil War -- "Amenable to military law" : policing civilians with military authority -- "All that savored of the overseer" : black soldiers in the nineteenth century -- "Maniacs or wild beasts" : military justice and American expansion -- "We return fighting" : black soldiers in the Jim Crow era -- "An emergency condition" : World War I and the first debate over reform -- "We've got to live with this the rest of our lives" : the deadly justice of World War II -- "You cannot maintain discipline by administering justice" : the Cold War and the UCNJ -- "My god, he's firing into the ditch" : Vietnam, the hollow army, and the end of the cold war -- Epilogue: the living past : the court-martial in contemporary America. |
| Subject |
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Subject |
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry. (OCoLC)fst00881868
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
9780393243406 (hardcover) |
|
0393243400 (hardcover) |
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