MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 111014s2012 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011041603
020 $a9781107009615 (hardback)
020 $a9780521254694 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aJV412$b.L67 2012
082 00 $a355.4/9$223
084 $aPOL011000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aLord, Carnes.
245 10 $aProconsuls :$bdelegated political-military leadership from Rome to America today /$cCarnes Lord.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $aix, 244 p. ;$c25 cm.
520 $a"This book is a study of proconsulship, a form of delegated political-military leadership historically associated with the governance of large empires. Opening with a conceptual and historical analysis of proconsulship as an aspect of imperial or quasi-imperial rule generally, it surveys its origins and development in the late Roman Republic and its manifestations in the British Empire. The main focus is proconsulship in American history. Beginning with the occupation of Cuba and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, it discusses the role of General Douglas MacArthur in East Asia during and after World War II, the occupation of Germany (focusing on General Lucius Clay), and proconsular leadership during the Vietnam War and the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan at the turn of the twenty-first century. An additional chapter provides an overview and assessment of the evolution of American political-military command and control and decision making after the end of the Cold War"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aMilitary government$xHistory.
650 0 $aMilitary occupation$xHistory.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xAdministration$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritories and possessions$xHistory.
650 0 $aProconsuls, Roman.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.$2bisacsh