War volunteering in modern times : from the French Revolution to the Second World War
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War volunteering in modern times : from the French Revolution to the Second World War
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Exploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds and military experiences of war volunteers in a wide range of conflicts since the French Revolution, and helps to interpret the relationship between war and society in modern times.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Volunteers, War and the Nation since the French Revolution
- C.G.Kruger & S.Levsen Volunteers of the French Revolutionary Wars: Myths and Reinterpretations
- T.Hippler For the Fatherland? The Motivations of Austrian and Prussian Volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- L.S.James '... so that people talk about Poland out loud again in the world today!' (Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz): Polish Volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars
- R.Leiserowitz Fag an Bealeagh: Irish Volunteers in the American Civil War
- M.Hochgeschwender 'A Race that is Thus Willing to Die for its Country': African-American Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898
- M.Speidel British and Imperial Volunteers in the South African War
- S.M.Miller Welcome but not that Welcome: the Relations between Foreign Volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902
- F.Pretorius Heroes or Citizens? The 1916 Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the 'European War'
- A.Jansen Voluntary Enlistment in the Great War: a European Phenomenon?
- A.Watson Paramilitary Volunteers for Weimar Germany's 'Wehrhaftmachung': How Civilians were Attracted to Serve with Irregular Military Units
- R.Bergien Fighting for God for Franco and (most of all) for Themselves: Right Wing Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
- J.Keene From the Nazi Party's Shock Troop to the 'European' Mass Army: The Waffen-SS Volunteers
- J-L.Leleu An Approach to the Social Profile and the Ideological Motivations of the Spanish Volunteers of the 'Blue Division', 1941-44
- X-M.Nunez Seixas Women in Combat: Female Volunteers in British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War
- J.Schwarzkopf
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