Format:
xii, 297 Seiten
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Diagramme
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22 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9780230228054
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0230228054
Content:
Introduction: Volunteers, war, and the nation since the French Revolution / Christine Krüger & Sonja Levsen -- Volunteers of the French Revolutionary wars : myths and reinterpretations / Thomas Hippler -- For the Fatherland? : the motivations of Austrian and Prussian volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Leighton S. James -- "... so that people talk about Poland out loud again in the world today!" (Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz) : Polish volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars / Ruth Leiserowitz -- Fág an Bealeagh : Irish volunteers in the American Civil War / Michael Hochgeschwender -- "A race that is thus willing to die for its country" : African-American volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898 / Matthias Speidel -- British and imperial volunteers in the South African War / Stephen M. Miller -- Welcome but not that welcome : the relations between foreign volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 / Fransjohan Pretorius -- Heroes or citizens? : the 1916 debate on Harvard volunteers in the "European War" / Axel Jansen -- Voluntary enlistment in the Great War : a European phenomenon? / Alexander Watson -- Paramilitary volunteers for Weimar Germany's "Wehrhaftmachung" : how civilians were attracted to serve with irregular military units / Rüdiger Bergien -- Fighting for God, for Franco, and (most of all) for themselves : right wing volunteers in the Spanish Civil War / Judith Keene -- From the Nazi Party's shock troop to the "European" mass army : the Waffen-SS volunteers / Jean-Luc Leleu -- An approach to the social profile and the ideological motivations of the Spanish volunteers of the "Blue Division," 1941-44 / Xosé-Manoel Núñez -- Women in combat : female volunteers in British anti-aircraft batteries in the Second World War / Jutta Schwarzkopf
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references
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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
,
"... so that people talk about Poland out loud again in the world today!" (Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz) : 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 Spanish-American War, 1898
,
British and imperial volunteers in the South African War
,
Welcome but not that welcome : the relations between foreign volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902
,
Heroes or citizens? : the 1916 debate on Harvard volunteers in the "European War"
,
Voluntary enlistment in the Great War : a European phenomenon?
,
Paramilitary volunteers for Weimar Germany's "Wehrhaftmachung" : how civilians were attracted to serve with irregular military units
,
Fighting for God, for Franco, and (most of all) for themselves : right wing volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
,
From the Nazi Party's shock troop to the "European" mass army : the Waffen-SS volunteers
,
An approach to the social profile and the ideological motivations of the Spanish volunteers of the "Blue Division," 1941-44
,
Women in combat : female volunteers in British anti-aircraft batteries in the Second World War
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Freiwilliger
;
Geschichte 1789-1945
;
Militär
;
Soldat
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Historische Darstellung
;
Konferenzsammelwerk
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36636
Author information:
Krüger, Christine G. 1975-
Author information:
Levsen, Sonja 1976-
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