War volunteering in modern times : from the French Revolution to the Second World War

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
1. Introduction: Volunteers, War, and the Nation since the French Revolution......Page 14
2. Volunteers of the French Revolutionary Wars: Myths and Reinterpretations......Page 36
3. For the Fatherland? The Motivations of Austrian and Prussian Volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars......Page 53
4. Polish Volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars......Page 72
5. Fág an Bealeagh: Irish Volunteers in the American Civil War......Page 91
6. \"A Race That Is Thus Willing To Die For Its Country\": African-American Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898......Page 105
7. British and Imperial Volunteers in the South African War......Page 122
8. Welcome but Not That Welcome: The Relations between Foreign Volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902......Page 135
9. Heroes or Citizens? The 1916 Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the \"European War\"......Page 163
10. Voluntary Enlistment in the Great War: a European Phenomenon?......Page 176
11. Paramilitary Volunteers for Weimar Germany\'s \"Wehrhaftmachung\": how Civilians were attracted to serve with Irregular Military Units......Page 202
12. Fighting for God, for Franco and (most of all) for Themselves: Right-Wing Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War......Page 224
13. From the Nazi Party\'s Shock Troop to the \"European\" Mass Army: The Waffen-SS Volunteers......Page 244
14. An Approach to the Social Profile and the Ideological Motivations of the Spanish Volunteers of the \"BlueDivision\", 1941–44......Page 261
15. Women in Combat: Female Volunteers in British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War......Page 288
Index......Page 304