Ohio : a military history : the seventeenth state of the Union / Michael Mangus.

Author
Mangus, Michael [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme Publishing, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
xiv, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Westholme state military history series [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Historian Michael Mangus traces Ohio's military history from what archaeology reveals about the earliest prehistoric people through Ohio's role in the War on Terror. [This book] is the most comprehensive account to date of conflict within the state as well as the state's contributions to the nation's military history. With its extraordinary natural resources and key waterways, the region that the state of Ohio now includes was a partial reason for three wars involving European powers: the French and Indian war, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. It was also site to numerous conflicts between Euro-Americans and American Indians in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Various American military personalities have ties to the state, including George Rogers Clark, Tecumseh, Ulysses S. Grant, George A. Custer, Edward Rickenbacker, and Paul Tibbets, Jr. Ohio's civilians routinely supported their soldiers in these military conflicts by endorsing bounties to spur recruits, providing funds to families of active-duty soldiers, forming Soldiers' Aid Societies, and serving as nurses on the battlefield. Yet not all of Ohio's people actively supported war, with some of the state's civilians playing prominent roles in protest efforts. -- Back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-336) and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Ohio's first peoples
    • Struggle for the Ohio country
    • War for the hearts and minds of the American people
    • Securing and settling the Ohio Country
    • Ohio through the War of 1812: The end of British and Native American influence
    • End of the Ohio Frontier, Manifest Destiny, and slavery, 1815-1860
    • Ohio and the American Civil War, 1861-1865
    • Politically divided, patriotically motivated, and economically fruitful, 1865-1898
    • Professionalization, natural disasters, labor unrest, and world war, 1900-1918
    • Roaring twenties and the Great Depression, and World War II, 1918-1945
    • United States of America as a superpower: Ohio's military history after World War II.
    ISBN
    • 9781594162145 ((hbk))
    • 159416214X ((hbk))
    OCLC
    880240410
    RCP
    H - S
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