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ISBN 10: 156802956X

ISBN 13: 978-1568029566

Author: Alan Axelrod 

Political History of America′s Wars is the first reference work to explore the legislative, social, and policy aspects of America′s major wars, rebellions, and insurrections. This new volume weaves together important primary source documents, informative biographies, and in-depth essays to provide coverage of the political antecedents, events, and consequences of America′s wars, from the American Revolution to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Political History of America′s Wars features:

Chronological chapters on each of America′s approximately fifty wars, rebellions, and insurrections
In-depth essays discussing America′s colonial period and the Indian Wars, the imperialist era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the modern era of America as global policeman, and more
Primary source documents and materials on relevant legislation and congressional resolutions, executive orders, proclamations, court cases, and constitutional amendments
Vital coverage of war-time events and trends including elections and political parties, public opinion, propaganda, media coverage, foreign relations, diplomacy, and treaties and alliances
A helpful glossary, a comprehensive table of laws and treaties, and an index make Political History of America′s Wars a valuable research tool that will serve researchers in political science, U.S. history, sociology, journalism, geography, and more.

Table of contents: 

1. The American Revolution (1771–1783)

2. Shays’s Rebellion (1786–1787) and the Whiskey Rebellion (1794)

3. Little Turtle’s War (1786–1795)

4. Franco-American Quasi-War (1798–1800)

5. Tripolitan War (1801–1805) and Algerine War (1815)

6. War of 1812 and the Creek War (1812–1815)

7. The Fredonian Rebellion (1825–1827) and the Aroostook War (1838–1839)

8. Seminole and Black Hawk Wars (1817–1858)

9. Texas War of Independence (1835–1836)

10. U.S.–Mexican War (1846–1848)

11. Introduction to the Indian Wars

12. Early Indian Wars in California (1850–1860)

13. Early Indian Wars in the Pacific Northwest (1855–1858)

14. Apache and Navajo War (1860–1868)

15. Civil War Prelude (1854–1861)

16. Minnesota Santee Sioux Uprising and Its Consequences (1862–1864)

17. The Civil War (1861–1865)

18. Reconstruction (1865–1877)

19. Cheyenne–Arapaho War (1864–1865)

20. War for the Bozeman Trail and Hancock’s Campaign (1866–1868)

21. Snake War and Sheridan’s Campaign (1866–1869)

22. Modoc War (1872–1873)

23. Red River (Kiowa) War (1874)

24. Apache War (1876–1886)

25. Sioux War for the Black Hills (1876–1879)

26. Nez Perce, Bannock, Sheepeater, and Ute Wars (1877–1879)

27. Sioux War of 1890–1891

28. Philippine Insurrections (1896–1902)

29. Spanish–American War (1898)

30. Moro Wars (1901–1913)

31. The Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)

32. U.S. Interventions in Panama (1903) and Nicaragua (1909–1912)

33. Punitive Expedition Against Pancho Villa (1916–1917)

34. World War I (U.S. Participation, 1917–1918)

35. Nicaraguan Civil War of 1925–1933

36. World War II (U.S. Participation, 1941–1945)
37. Korean War (1950–1953)
38. Vietnam War (1954–1975)
39. The United States as Peacemaker
40. U.S. Interventions in Lebanon (1958 and 1975–1992)
41. Civil Wars in Nicaragua and Honduras (1978–1990)
42. U.S. Invasions of Grenada (1983) and Panama (1989)
43. Persian Gulf War (1991)
44. War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995)
45. U.S. Intervention in the Somali Civil War (1988–1994)
46. U.S. Intervention in the Kosovo Crisis (1996–1999)
47. War in Afghanistan and the War on Terror (2001–)
48. Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003–)
49. Index
50. Photo Credits
51. Text Credits

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