Morale - A Modern British History

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• 1. Morale, Modernity, and British Social Imaginaries


• 2. Transforming Military Discipline: The Reformation of Conduct in Nineteenth-Century Britain


• 3. The Sources of Collective Action: The Emergence of Morale as a New Military Problem


• 4. New Wars: Morale and Democratic Mobilization


• 5. The Techno-Politics of Consensus: Morale at the Workplace


• Epilogue: Morale in a New (Neo-Liberal) Key?


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Daniel Ussishkin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summary

Morale traces the emergence of a novel and modern concept through which collective conduct was be managed, and its diffusion from the military to other civilian spheres of life during the twentieth-century, when it came to be understood as vital for the democratic management of groups in war and peace.

Additional text

In Morale: A Modern British History, Daniel Ussishkin ... masterfully explains the rise and fall of morale in lucid and engaging prose, deftly illuminating the intellectual, cultural, and institutional growth of an idea central to British conceptions of democratic management and to its unraveling. This powerful and engrossing book is of central importance to the intellectual history of British democracy and the modern state.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Ussishkin, Daniel (Associate Professor of History Ussishkin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2017
• EAN: 9780190469078
• ISBN: 978-0-19-046907-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Military / Veterans, Psychology: emotions, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history