Daniel Ussishkin (University of Wis Associate Professor of History

Morale

A Modern British History

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Produktbeschreibung

Morale traces the emergence of a novel and modern concept through which collective conduct was be managed, and its diffusion from the military to other civilian spheres of life during the twentieth-century, when it came to be understood as vital for the democratic management of groups in war and peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780190469078
• ISBN-10: 0190469072
• Artikelnr.: 48064096

Autorenporträt

Daniel Ussishkin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1. Morale, Modernity, and British Social Imaginaries
* 2. Transforming Military Discipline: The Reformation of Conduct in
Nineteenth-Century Britain
* 3. The Sources of Collective Action: The Emergence of Morale as a New
Military Problem
* 4. New Wars: Morale and Democratic Mobilization
* 5. The Techno-Politics of Consensus: Morale at the Workplace
* Epilogue: Morale in a New (Neo-Liberal) Key?
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index