Soldiers' Lives through History - The Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

Neiberg, Michael S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031333269X ISBN 13: 9780313332692

Publisher: Greenwood, 2006

Synopsis

This is the story of the evolution of the citizen army throughout Western nations during the nineteenth century and up through World War I. The French Revolution had brought to Europe the concept of military service as a citizen responsibility. Until then, armies and navies had been the province of the upper classes and of mercenaries, with authoritarian governments firmly in place that held little connection to the common person. As more democratic and republican governments developed during the 1800s, military service became not only a citizen's obligation, but for many, an honor. By the time of World War I, men and women-in more limited roles-were becoming willing to risk their lives for the goals of their countries.

About this title

Book Description:

Learn about soldiers' day-to-day lives in the new type of citizen soldier military, stretching from the bloody French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the brutal conditions of the first World War in the early twentieth century.

About the Author:

Michael S. Neiberg is Professor of History and Co-Chair of the Center for the Study of the War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi and was formerly Professor of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is the author of Never Such Innocence Again: A History of the First World War (2005), Warfare and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present (2004), and many other titles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 031333269X
• ISBN 13: 9780313332692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232