Covers the period between the end of World War I and the escalation of the Vietnam conflict, during which both U.S. cities and the U.S. military came of age. Th

This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elit

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Explaining America's rise as a global military power challenges the methodologies of military history. This volume looks beyond the major conflicts covered else