Court-martial : how military justice has shaped America from the revolution to 9/11 and beyond / Chris Bray.
2016
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Title
Court-martial : how military justice has shaped America from the revolution to 9/11 and beyond / Chris Bray.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Call Number
KF7625 .B73 2016
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393243406 hardcover
0393243400 hardcover
0393243400 hardcover
Description
xvii, 398 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)921868895
Summary
"Tells the sweeping story of military justice, from the institution of the court martial in the earliest days of the Republic to contemporary arguments over how to use military courts to try foreign terrorists or soldiers accused of sexual assault,"--NoveList.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
xi
pt. ONE
CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS
The Early Republic to the 1850s
1
1.
"Almost A Blasphemer"
Citizen-Soldiers as Neighbors in the Early United States
7
2.
"A Blind Lottery"
Discipline and Justice in the Old Navy
37
3.
"A Lawful Going Home"
Conflict and Coercion in the Jacksonian Military
63
pt. TWO
AUTHORITY AND EXPANSION
The Civil War to the Philippine War
93
4.
"I Won't Be Quiet"
Force and Consent in the Civil War
99
5.
"Amenable To Military Law"
Policing Civilians with Military Authority
121
6.
"All That Savored Of The Overseer"
Black Soldiers in the Nineteenth Century
147
7.
"Maniacs Or Wild Beasts"
Military Justice and American Expansion
175
pt. THREE
POWER AND PLURALISM
World War I to 9/11
205
8.
"We Return Fighting"
Black Soldiers in the Jim Crow Era
209
9.
"An Emergency Condition"
World War I and the First Debate over Reform
241
10.
"We've Got To Live With This The Rest Of Our Lives": The Deadly Justice of World War II
263
11.
"You Cannot Maintain Discipline By Administering Justice"
The Cold War and the UCMJ
295
12.
"My God, He's Firing Into The Ditch"
Vietnam, the Hollow Army, and the End of the Cold War
325
Epilogue: The Living Past: The Court-Martial in Contemporary America
343
Acknowledgments
357
Notes On Sources
359
Index
387