Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution

Download Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution PDF by * Ira D. Gruber eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders. By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber shows that by the middle of the eighteenth century British officers were discriminating in their choices of books on war and, further, th

Author	:	Ira D. Gruber
Rating	:	4.18 (851 Votes)
Asin	:	0807833789
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	344 Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-05-06
Language	:	English

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Priceless insight but some topics are not addressed Ira Gruber is an excellent scholar and a good writer. This new work on military books of the 18th century and their influence on the British Army provides priceless insight.Following battlefield defeats in the War of Austrian Succession, British officers soug. "Gruber's perspective transcends books" according to Literate traveler. Ira Gruber has written a splendid and broad-ranging introductory essay to his fascinating examination of 18th-century British officers and the books they read and used. It includes the best summary I've ever seen of the five-century-long Military Revolution o

An interesting case study that charts the relationship between intellectual prescription and cultural (in this case military) practice.--Anglican and Episcopal HistoryThis is a wonderful book. It provides real, tangible and quantifiable insight that will cause historians to reassess why certain eighteenth-century British field commanders acted as they did.--Journal of NC Association of HistoriansThis revealing and methodical book significantly advances our understanding of the professional thinking of Britis

Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders. By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber shows that by the middle of the eighteenth century British officers were discriminating in their choices of books on war and, further, that their emerging preference for Continental books affected their understanding of warfare and their conduct of operations in the American Revolution. Gruber's analysis is enhanced with deta

Ira D. Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. From 1966 to 2009 he taught courses in early American and military history at Rice, the U.S. Gruber is Harris Masterson, Jr. . Military Academy, and the U.S. Army Staff College