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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. Introduction : Volunteers, War, And The Nation Since The French Revolution -- Volunteers Of The French Revolutionary Wars : Myths And Reinterpretations -- For The Fatherland? : The Motivations Of Austrian And Prussian Volunteers During The Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars -- Polish Volunteers In The Napoleonic Wars -- Fág An Bealeagh : Irish Volunteers In The American Civil War -- A Race That Is Thus Willing To Die For Its Country : African-american Volunteers In The S

Author

Christine G. Krüger [and] Sonja Levsen

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230228054

Subjects

Military, Political Science, Government_military