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Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
Ilya Berkovich
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Description for Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
hardcover. Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe. Num Pages: 318 pages, 5 b/w illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate or unnecessarily cruel, nor did they perceive themselves as submissive military automatons. Instead he shows how these men embraced a unique corporate identity based on military professionalism, forceful masculinity and hostility toward civilians. These values fostered the notion of individual and collective soldierly honour which helped to create the bonding effect which contributed toward greater combat cohesion. ... Read more
This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate or unnecessarily cruel, nor did they perceive themselves as submissive military automatons. Instead he shows how these men embraced a unique corporate identity based on military professionalism, forceful masculinity and hostility toward civilians. These values fostered the notion of individual and collective soldierly honour which helped to create the bonding effect which contributed toward greater combat cohesion. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107167735
SKU
V9781107167735
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About Ilya Berkovich
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
'Sharply focused and crisply written … Motivation in War is one of the most important studies of the eighteenth century published in recent years, with implications which range far beyond armies and military history' Hamish Scott, Journal of Social History '… this is an impressive first monograph from an extremely adept and promising military historian. Berkovich's argument is thoughtful, compelling, ... Read more