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Rory
McGovern
Author
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
Spring 2017
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George
W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an
army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War.
At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such
challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation
follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army
during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a
frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting
power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story
reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing
social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism
created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the
Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably
traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the
managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and
momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not
complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new
structures.
Spring 2017
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal,
Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting
institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
Spring 2017
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017-05
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John Charles
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John Charles
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Degree granting institution
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals; Managerial Revolution; Panama Canal; Root Reforms; U.S. Army; World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John Charles
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Degree granting institution
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals, Managerial Revolution, Panama Canal, Root Reforms, U.S. Army, World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John Charles
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals; Managerial Revolution; Panama Canal; Root Reforms; U.S. Army; World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John Charles
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Rory
McGovern
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
George W. Goethals: Life and Reform in the U.S. Army, 1876-1919
In the culminating achievements of a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, George W. Goethals led the construction of the Panama Canal and managed the effort to sustain an army of approximately four million soldiers during the final year of the First World War. At the outset of that career, neither he nor the U.S. Army was prepared to meet such challenges. Using biography as a vehicle to examine a larger problem, this dissertation follows Goethals’s career in order to understand the nature of change in the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as it transitioned from a frontier constabulary and coastal defense force to a modern army capable of projecting power abroad and meeting the challenges of twentieth-century warfare. Goethals’s story reveals that the legacy of the Civil War and the army’s failure to keep pace with changing social norms and practices in training, education, and perceptions of professionalism created a traditionalist culture that did not embrace the new structures imposed by the Root Reforms at the turn of the century, but sought to apply them to comfortably traditional norms, values, and practices. At the same time, the army’s embrace of the managerial revolution and its experience of the First World War provided the impetus and momentum for cultural change. Reform was actually a decades-long process that was not complete until the army’s culture shifted to realign with its new structures.
2017
Military history
American history
George W. Goethals; Managerial Revolution; Panama Canal; Root Reforms; U.S. Army; World War I
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Joseph
Glatthaar
Thesis advisor
Wayne
Lee
Thesis advisor
John Charles
Chasteen
Thesis advisor
Michael
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Benjamin
Waterhouse
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
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