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LEADER: 02940cam a22003018a 4500
001 2010023830
003 DLC
005 20111019081536.0
008 100615s2010 enk b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2010023830
020 $a9780230228054 (hbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aU320$b.W37 2010
082 00 $a355.2/236209$222
245 00 $aWar volunteering in modern times :$bfrom the French Revolution to the Second World War /$cedited by Christine G. Krüger [and] Sonja Levsen.
260 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2010.
263 $a1012
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aMilitary service, Voluntary$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aMilitary service, Voluntary$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMilitary service, Voluntary$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMilitary history, Modern$y18th century.
650 0 $aMilitary history, Modern$y19th century.
650 0 $aMilitary history, Modern$y20th century.
700 1 $aKrüger, Christine G.
700 1 $aLevsen, Sonja.