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The comparative study of conscription in the armed forces /
This volume contributes to the comparative study of military conscription. Issues discussed include: a conceptual clarification of conscription as distinguished from volunteerism and militia service; the emergence of the citizen soldier model; patterns of anti-militarism before World War I; conscrip...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
JAI,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Comparative social research ;
v. 20. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Lars Mjøset and Stephen van Holde
- Part I : Historical perspectives
- 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
- Conscription as ideology : revolutionary France and the nation in arms / Alan Forrest
- Citizen-soldiers, national service and the mass army : the birth of conscription in revolutionary Europe and North America / Meyer Kestnbaum
- Globalization, conscription, and anti-militarism in pre-World War I Europe / David M. Rowe
- Who's using whom? : A comparison of military conscription in Guatemala and Senegal in the first half of the twentieth century / David Carey, Jr.
- Of war and virtue : gender, American citizenship and veterans' benefits after World War II / Gretchen Ritter
- Part II : Contemporary perspectives
- Traditional gendered identities : national service and the all volunteer force / Paul R. Higate
- Recruitment of children as soldiers in sub-Saharan Africa : an ecological analysis / Michael Wessells
- Militia conscription in Sierra Leone : recruitment of young fighters in an African war / Paul Richards
- Conscription and its alternatives / Bjørn Møller
- The European farewell to conscription? / Rafael Ajangiz
- Part III : Review symposium section
- Consent, dissent, and patriotism : a summary / Margaret Levi
- State theory, historical sociology and the challenge of the international / John M. Hobson
- Democratic states and societies at war : the global context / Tarak Barkawi
- An analytic narrative of conscription : cases, contexts, and causes / Margaret Levi.