The comparative study of conscription in the armed forces
By: edited by Lars Mjøset, Stephen van Holde.
Contributors: Mjøset, Lars.; Van Holde, Stephen.
Series: Comparative social research -- v. 20
Publisher: JAI
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Draft
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-424).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Lars Mjøset and Stephen van Holde -- Part I : Historical perspectives; title: Killing for the state, dying for the nation : an introductory essay on the life cycle of conscription into Europe's armed forces -- Lars Mjøset and Stephen van Holde; title: Conscription as ideology : revolutionary France and the nation in arms -- Alan Forrest; title: Citizen-soldiers, national service and the mass army : the birth of conscription in revolutionary Europe and North America -- Meyer Kestnbaum; title: Globalization, conscription, and anti-militarism in pre-World War I Europe -- David M. Rowe; title: Who's using whom? : A comparison of military conscription in Guatemala and Senegal in the first half of the twentieth century -- David Carey, Jr.; title: Of war and virtue : gender, American citizenship and veterans' benefits after World War II -- Gretchen Ritter -- Part II : Contemporary perspectives; title: Traditional gendered identities : national service and the all volunteer force -- Paul R. Higate; title: Recruitment of children as soldiers in sub-Saharan Africa : an ecological analysis -- Michael Wessells; title: Militia conscription in Sierra Leone : recruitment of young fighters in an African war -- Paul Richards; title: Conscription and its alternatives -- Bjørn Møller; title: The European farewell to conscription? -- Rafael Ajangiz -- Part III : Review symposium section; title: Consent, dissent, and patriotism : a summary -- Margaret Levi; title: State theory, historical sociology and the challenge of the international -- John M. Hobson; title: Democratic states and societies at war : the global context -- Tarak Barkawi; title: An analytic narrative of conscription : cases, contexts, and causes-- Margaret Levi.