A Nation in Barracks: Conscription, Military Service and Civil Society in Modern Germany
Title | A Nation in Barracks: Conscription, Military Service and Civil Society in Modern Germany |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2004 |
Authors | Frevert, Ute |
Number of Pages | 328 |
Publisher | Berg Publishers |
City | Oxford, UK |
Abstract | 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 concept of violence. She begins with the early nineteenth century, when conscription was first used in Prussia and initially met with harsh criticism from all aspects of society, and continues through the two Germanies of the post-1949 period. The book covers the Prussian model used during World War I, the Weimar Republic when no conscription was enforced, and the mass military mobilization of the Third Reich. Throughout this detailed investigation, Ute Frevert examines how civil society deals with institutionalized violence and how this affects models of citizenship and gender relations. [UNC Chapel Hill] |
URL | http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-nation-in-barracks-9781859738818/ |
Original Publication | Die kasernierte Nation: Militärdienst und Zivilgesellschaft in Deutschland. München: Beck, 2001. |
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- 1. War and Gender: From The Thirty Years War and Colonial Conquest to the Wars of Revolution and Independence—An Overview
- 8. Citizenship, Mass Mobilization and Masculinity in a Transatlantic Perspective, 1770s–1870s
- 9. War and Gender: Nineteenth-Century Wars of Nations and Empires—An Overview
- 10. War Mobilization, Gender and Military Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Western Societies
- 15. War and Gender: The Age of the World Wars and its Aftermath—An Overview
- 19. History and Memory of Military Women and Female Soldiers in the Age of World Wars
- 20. States, Military Masculinity, and Combat in the Age of World Wars
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