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Conscription
They Went into the Fight Cheering: Confederate Conscription in North Carolina
Walter Carrington Hilderman
Parkway Publishers
, 2006
For Serious Students
Hilderman's book follows in the tradition of the 1924 classic, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy, written by the chair of the history department at the University of Alabama and descendant of Confederate veterans, Albert Burton Moore. They Went Into The ...
Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925
Joshua A. Sanborn
Northern Illinois University Press
, 2003
a very interesting thesis
The main thesis of Sanborn's book is that violence as seen through the examples of the Tsarist and Soviet armies cemented the Russian nation together. The first part of the book, Sanborn writes about how the Soviet army managed to tighten draft evasions by rewarding ...
The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations
Gregory J. Kasza
Yale University Press
, 1995
This original book is a comparative study of administered mass organizations (AMOs), a term Kasza uses to describe mass civilian bodies "conscripted" by authoritarian regimes to implement public policy. Kasza describes the ways in which different governments-in such countries as Japan, the Soviet Union, and Fascist Italy-have used AMOs as potent ...
The Private War of Private Miller: Reflections of a Marine Corps Conscript
Glen Millar
Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc.
, 2008
As a Vietnam-era veteran, Glen Millar reveals to us stories of his youth, conscription by the Marine Corps, and his military experiences, followed by stories of his life thereafter and a look at the changed world in which he then lived. Being the unwilling conscript, the stories of when Glen was in boot camp are very intense, both physically ...
The Coming Draft: The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America
Philip Gold
Presidio Press
, 2006
To Draft or Not to Draft?
Excerpted from my review for The Orange County Register, 10/29/06 "Hell no, we won't go!" seemingly faded overnight ... until last year, when the Army missed its recruiting goal, lowered its physical standards and raised its age limit for enlistees to 42. ...
A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society
Ute Frevert
Berg Publishers
, 2004
A Nation in Barracks shows how military-civil relations have evolved in Germany during the last two hundred years. This book investigates how conscription has contributed to instilling a strong sense of military commitment among the German public. The author looks at its relationship to state citizenship, nation building, gender formation and the ...
Conscription And the Search for Modern Russian Jewry (Modern Jewish Experience)
Olga Litvak
Indiana University Press
, 2006
Russian Jews were first conscripted into the Imperial Russian army during the reign of Nicholas I in an effort to integrate them into the population of the Russian Empire. Conscripted minors were to serve, in practical terms, for life. Although this system was abandoned by his successor, the conscription experience remained traumatic in the ...
War or Revolution: Russian Jews And Conscription in Britain, 1917
Harold Shukman
Mitchell Vallentine & Company
, 2006
They say it is spectacular
Discovered this book through a review in the Jerusalem Post literary critics. Sounded interesting, so I ordered it. Now you may think that writing a review, you should have read the book. So do I, usually, indeed, I wish I would have had a chance to read it. But ever ...
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy (Southern Classics Series)
Albert Burton Moore
University of South Carolina Press
, 1996
the black side of the Lost Cause
Initially published in 1924, Albert B. Moore's "Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy" deserved the excellent reprint performed by the University of South Carolina Press. After the war, the South had to distort the truth to ennoble its defeat because the North ...
The conscription
William D (William Darrah) Kelley
Thomson Gale
, 1969
The conscription. Also Speeches of the Hon WD Kelley of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives on the conscription the way to attain and secure peace and on arming the Negroes: with a letter from Secretary Chase Gale Archival Editions: On Demand are digital copies of rare and out-of-print historical content. Delivered where and when you ...
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