Ilya Berkovich

Motivation in War

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Produktbeschreibung

Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781316618103
• ISBN-10: 1316618102
• Artikelnr.: 46489452

Autorenporträt

Ilya Berkovich completed his PhD thesis at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and has since published items on crusader and eighteenth-century history. He has won the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Moncado Prize for an Outstanding Article from the Society for Military History. Berkovich is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Before starting his studies, he served three years as a conscript in the Israel Defence Forces.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Motivation: new research and contemporary sources
2. Reconsidering desertion in old-regime Europe
3. Discipline and defiance: a reciprocal model
4. Why they enlisted?
5. A counterculture of honour
6. Networks of loyalty and acceptance
Concluding remarks
Bibliography.