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The Progressive Army : US Army Command and Administration, 1870-1914
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781349268900
- ISBN-10: 1349268909
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: January 1998
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.54 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.67 pounds
- Page Count: 225
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