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War Volunteering in Modern Times

From the French Revolution to the Second World War

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Christine G. Krüger

    1. The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

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  2. Sonja Levsen

    1. University of Freiburg, Germany

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Volunteers, War, and the Nation since the French Revolution

    • Christine G. Krüger, Sonja Levsen
    Pages 1-22

  3. Volunteers of the French Revolutionary Wars: Myths and Reinterpretations

    • Thomas Hippler
    Pages 23-39

  4. For the Fatherland? The Motivations of Austrian and Prussian Volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    • Leighton S. James
    Pages 40-58

  5. Polish Volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars

    • Ruth Leiserowitz
    Pages 59-77

  6. Fág an Bealeagh: Irish Volunteers in the American Civil War

    • Michael Hochgeschwender
    Pages 78-91

  7. “A Race That Is Thus Willing To Die For Its Country”: African-American Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898

    • Matthias Speidel
    Pages 92-108

  8. British and Imperial Volunteers in the South African War

    • Stephen M. Miller
    Pages 109-121

  9. Welcome but Not That Welcome: The Relations between Foreign Volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902

    • Fransjohan Pretorius
    Pages 122-149

  10. Heroes or Citizens? The 1916 Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the “European War”

    • Axel Jansen
    Pages 150-162

  11. Voluntary Enlistment in the Great War: a European Phenomenon?

    • Alexander Watson
    Pages 163-188

  12. Paramilitary Volunteers for Weimar Germany’s “Wehrhaftmachung”: how Civilians were attracted to serve with Irregular Military Units

    • Rüdiger Bergien
    Pages 189-210

  13. Fighting for God, for Franco and (most of all) for Themselves: Right-Wing Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

    • Judith Keene
    Pages 211-230

  14. From the Nazi Party’s Shock Troop to the “European” Mass Army: The Waffen-SS Volunteers

    • Jean-Luc Leleu
    Pages 231-247

  15. An Approach to the Social Profile and the Ideological Motivations of the Spanish Volunteers of the “Blue Division”, 1941–44

    • Xosé-Manoel Núñez Seixas
    Pages 248-274

  16. Women in Combat: Female Volunteers in British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War

    • Jutta Schwarzkopf
    Pages 275-290

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 291-297
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Exploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds and military experiences of war volunteers in a wide range of conflicts since the French Revolution, and helps to interpret the relationship between war and society in modern times.

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'...offers a hitherto unexplored comparative perspective on war volunteering and thus should be read by anyone who is interested in the modern history of military mobilization.' -Journal of Contemporary History

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

    Christine G. Krüger

  • University of Freiburg, Germany

    Sonja Levsen

About the editors

RÜDIGER BERGIEN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Potsdam, Germany THOMAS HIPPLER Lecturer, Institute for Political Studies, Lyon, France MICHAEL HOCHGESCHWENDER Professor of American History, University of Munich, Germany LEIGHTON S. JAMES Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Swansea, UK AXEL JANSEN Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany JUDITH KEENE Associate Professor in History, University of Sydney, Australia RUTH LEISEROWITZ Associate Professor, University Klaip?ida, Lithuania JEAN-LUC LELEU Research Engineer, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Caen, France XOSÉ-MANOEL NÚÑEZ SEIXAS Professor of Late Modern History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain STEPHEN M. MILLER Associate Professor of History at the University of Maine, USA FRANSJOHAN PRETORIUS Professor of History, University of Pretoria, South Africa JUTTA SCHWARZKOPF Lecturer in British Studies, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany MATTHIAS SPEIDEL PhD Candidate, Tübingen Collaborative Research Centre on War and Society in Modern Times, Germany ALEXANDER WATSON British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK

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