Reader 'At Duty's Call'

A study in obsolete patriotism
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1950-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 164 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reader, W. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
1. ‘Their name liveth for evermore’
2. On war: Clausewitz, Darwin, Henty and others
3. The British Empire: ‘Dominion over palm and pine’
4. Germany rising
5. The temples of the faith: ‘the best school of all’
6. Voluntary enlistment 1914-15: ‘Your country needs YOU!’
7. ‘The old lie…?’
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reader W. J.:
W. J. Reader was a freelance historian associated with the Business History Unit at the London School of EconomicsW. J. Reader was a freelance historian associated with the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics