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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
1: The Institution of Conscription; 2: Hessian Peasant Women, their Families, and the Draft: a Social-Historical Interpretation of Four Tales from the Grimm Collection; 3: Purchase and Promotion in the British Army in the Eighteenth Century; 4: The Afro-Argentine Officers of Buenosaires Province, 1800–1860; 5: ‘Martial Races’: Ethnicity and Security in Colonial India 1858–1939; 6: Chums In Arms: Comradeship Among Canada's South African War Soldiers 1; 7: The Creation of the Imperial Military Reserve Association in Japan; 8: The Untouchable Soldier: Caste, Politics, and the Indian Army; 9: Ethnic Conflict in the Military of Developing Nations: A Comparative Analysis of India and Nigeria; 10: The Blue Water Soviet Naval Officer; 11: Consent and the American Soldier; 12: General Smallwood's Recruits: The Peacetime Career of the Revolutionary War Private; 13: Commutation; 14: Guerrilla War in Western Missouri, 1862–1865: Historical Extensions of the Relative Deprivation Hypothesis; 15: Draft Evasion in the North during the Civil War, 1863–1865; 16: Making the Military American: Advertising, Reform, and the Demise of an Antistanding Military Tradition, 1945–1955 1; 17: Was Vietnam a Class War?; 18: The Army's Be All You Can Be Campaign
About the author
Peter Karsten
Summary
These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society.
