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Record Nr.

UNINA9910693976503321

Titolo

Recruiting, drafting, and enlisting : two sides of the raising of military forces / / edited with introductions by Peter Karsten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-66157-X

1-315-05249-0

1-135-66150-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 328 p. ) : ill., 1 map

Collana

Military and society : a collection of essays

The military and society ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

KarstenPeter

Disciplina

355.22309

Soggetti

Recruiting and enlistment - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1998 by Garland Pub.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The institution of conscription / Margaret Levi -- Hessian peasant women, their families, and the draft : a social-historical interpretation of four tales from the Grimm collection / Peter Taylor and Hermann Rebel -- Purchase and promotion in the British army in the eighteenth century / Eric Robson -- The Afro-Argentine officers of Buenos Aires province, 1800-1860 / George Reid Andrews -- "Martial races" : ethnicity and security in colonial India, 1858-1939 / David Omissi -- Chums in arms : comradeship among Canada's South Africa war soldiers / Carman Miller -- The creation of the Imperial Military Reserve Association in Japan / Richard J. Smethurst -- The untouchable soldier : caste, politics, and the Indian army / Stephen P. Cohen -- Ethnic conflict in the military of developing nations : a comparative analysis of India and Nigeria / Pradeep P. Barua -- The blue water Soviet naval officer / Sumner Shapiro -- Consent and the American soldier : theory versus reality / Peter Karsten -- General Smallwood's recruits : the peacetime career of the Revolutionary War private / Edward C. Papenfuse and Gregory A. Stiverson -- Commutation : democratic or undemocratic? / Hugh G. Earnhart -- Guerrilla war in Western Missouri, 1862-1865 : historical extensions of the relative deprivation hypothesis / Don R. Bowen -- Draft evasion in the North during the Civil War, 1863-1865 / Peter Levine -- Making the military American :



advertising, reform, and the demise of an antistanding military tradition, 1945-1955 / Mark R. Grandstaff -- Was Vietnam a class war? / Allan Mazur -- The army's "be all you can be" campaign / Leonard Shyles and John E. Hocking.

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1999 First published in 1999