War volunteering in modern times
Subtitle: from the French Revolution to the Second World War
By: edited by Christine G. Krüger [and] Sonja Levsen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780230228054
Description: "Why do individuals voluntarily fight in wars? Volunteering is a characteristic phenomenon of modern wars, yet has surprisingly never been approached by historians, sociologists, or political scientists in a comprehensive way. This book therefore fills an important gap in the historiography of war and society in modern times by tackling the motivations, social backgrounds, military uses and experiences of war volunteers in the wars between the late eighteenth century and today. By using a comparative perspective, the book provides an important basis for the interpretation of volunteer movements and significantly furthers our understanding of the relationship between war and society in the modern era"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Volunteers, war, and the nation since the French Revolution / Christine Krüger & Sonja Levsen; title: Volunteers of the French Revolutionary wars : myths and reinterpretations / Thomas Hippler; title: For the Fatherland? : the motivations of Austrian and Prussian volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Leighton S. James; title: "... so that people talk about Poland out loud again in the world today!" (Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz) : Polish volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars / Ruth Leiserowitz; title: Fág an Bealeagh : Irish volunteers in the American Civil War / Michael Hochgeschwender; title: "A race that is thus willing to die for its country" : African-American volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898 / Matthias Speidel; title: British and imperial volunteers in the South African War / Stephen M. Miller; title: Welcome but not that welcome : the relations between foreign volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 / Fransjohan Pretorius; title: Heroes or citizens? : the 1916 debate on Harvard volunteers in the "European War" / Axel Jansen; title: Voluntary enlistment in the Great War : a European phenomenon? / Alexander Watson; title: Paramilitary volunteers for Weimar Germany's "Wehrhaftmachung" : how civilians were attracted to serve with irregular military units / Rüdiger Bergien; title: Fighting for God, for Franco, and (most of all) for themselves : right wing volunteers in the Spanish Civil War / Judith Keene; title: From the Nazi Party's shock troop to the "European" mass army : the Waffen-SS volunteers / Jean-Luc Leleu; title: An approach to the social profile and the ideological motivations of the Spanish volunteers of the "Blue Division," 1941-44 / Xosé-Manoel Núñez; title: Women in combat : female volunteers in British anti-aircraft batteries in the Second World War / Jutta Schwarzkopf.