02719nam 2200601Ia 450 991078533510332120200520144314.01-4696-0393-40-8078-9940-2(CKB)2670000000058456(EBL)605915(OCoLC)676697361(SSID)ssj0000413061(PQKBManifestationID)11293348(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413061(PQKBWorkID)10388469(PQKB)11147515(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245854(MdBmJHUP)muse23401(Au-PeEL)EBL605915(CaPaEBR)ebr10425437(MiAaPQ)EBC605915(EXLCZ)99267000000005845620100401d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBooks and the British Army in the age of the American Revolution[electronic resource] /Ira D. GruberChapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ;[Washington, D.C.] Copublished with the Society of the Cincinnati20101 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-2215-7 0-8078-3378-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: a French connection -- Officers and their books -- Books preferred -- Books not taken.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. Now, in this groundbreaking analysis, Ira D. Gruber identifies which among over nine hundred books on war were considered most important by British officers and how those books might have affected the army from one era to another. By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber showsBooks and readingGreat BritainHistory18th centuryMilitary art and scienceGreat BritainHistory18th centuryUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783British forcesBooks and readingHistoryMilitary art and scienceHistory355.00941/09033Gruber Ira D1520402Society of the Cincinnati.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785335103321Books and the British Army in the age of the American Revolution3758964UNINA