War volunteering in modern times: from the French revolution to the Second World War

Exploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examineswhy individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds andmilitary experiences of war volunteers in a wide range of conflicts since theFrench Revolution, and helps to interpret the relationship between war and society in modern times. CHRISTINE G. KRÜGER is Assistant Professor at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and completed her PhD at the University of Tübingen in 2004. Her study on German Jews during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) was awarded three prizes, among them the Walter-Witzenmann-Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. From 2008-2009 she was a Feodor-Lynen fellow (Humboldt Foundation) at Oxford University. SONJA LEVSEN is Assistant Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her prize-winning PhD thesis on the impact of the Great War onBritish and German students was published in 2006 as 'Elite, Männlichkeit undKrieg: Tübinger und Cambridger Studenten, 1900-1929', (Göttingen: Vandenhoeckund Ruprecht). She has also published a range of articles, including: 'Constructing Elite Identities: University Students, Military Masculinity and the Consequences of the Great War in Britain and Germany' ('Past and Present' 198, pp. 147-183) INDICE: - Introduction: Volunteers, War and the Nation since the French Revolution; 'C.G.Krüger '& '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 inthe world today!' (Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz): Polish Volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars; 'R.Leiserowitz - ''Fág 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 Volunteersin 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 tothe Social Profile and the Ideological Motivations of the Spanish Volunteers of the 'Blue Division', 1941-44; 'X-M.Núñez Seixas' - Women in Combat: Female Volunteers in British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War; 'J.Schwarzkopf'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22805-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 14/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido