The Militia and the National Guard in America Since Colonial Times - (Research Guides in Military Studies) Annotated by Jerry Cooper (Hardcover)

About the Book

This research guide fills a major gap in the literature about the citizen and volunteer soldier in American military history and explains how to conduct research on the subject and to explore fruitful areas for future study. Professor Cooper gives a brief historiography and points to the 50 most important studies on America's militia and National Guard. A carefully annotated bibliography provides basic information about 406 books, dissertations, and journal articles. Chapters cover different historical periods and topics, including African Americans, for the easy use of students, scholars, and researchers in history and military studies, as well as for history buffs wanting to learn more about the Guard. Author and subject indexes add to the usefulness of the volume.

Book Synopsis

This research guide fills a major gap in the literature about the citizen and volunteer soldier in American military history and explains how to conduct research on the subject and to explore fruitful areas for future study. Professor Cooper gives a brief historiography and points to the 50 most important studies on America's militia and National Guard. A carefully annotated bibliography provides basic information about 406 books, dissertations, and journal articles. Chapters cover different historical periods and topics, including African Americans, for the easy use of students, scholars, and researchers in history and military studies, as well as for history buffs wanting to learn more about the Guard. Author and subject indexes add to the usefulness of the volume.

Review Quotes

?Cooper provides a compact but significant tool for those who would examine the literature of "volunteers" in the American military. Recommended for not only military-oriented collections, but those that emphasize the role of citizen participation in common defense.?-Choice

?Cooper's volume is a good introduction to current scholarly studies on the institutional volunteer.?-The Journal of Military History

?This guide deals with the up-and-down history of volunteer military units in U.S. history. Cooper cites 406 reference sources and provides both author and subject indexes. He has earned the thanks of any reader interested in the long, proud history of volunteers, from the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord to the individuals who served in the 1991 Gulf War.?-ARBA 95

"Cooper provides a compact but significant tool for those who would examine the literature of "volunteers" in the American military. Recommended for not only military-oriented collections, but those that emphasize the role of citizen participation in common defense."-Choice

"Cooper's volume is a good introduction to current scholarly studies on the institutional volunteer."-The Journal of Military History

"This guide deals with the up-and-down history of volunteer military units in U.S. history. Cooper cites 406 reference sources and provides both author and subject indexes. He has earned the thanks of any reader interested in the long, proud history of volunteers, from the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord to the individuals who served in the 1991 Gulf War."-ARBA 95

About the Author

JERRY COOPER, Professor of History, University of Missouri at St. Louis, is the recognized authority on the subject of the American militia and the National Guard. He served formally as the Harold K. Johnson Professor at the Army War College. He is the author of The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1877-1990 (Greenwood Press, 1980) and is completing a history of the National Guard, which is forthcoming from Greenwood Press. He also co-authored with Glenn Smith, Citizens as Soldiers: A History of the North Dakota National Guard (1986).