Conscription Family and the Modern State by Dorit Geva HARDBACK 9781107024984

Conscription Family and the Modern State\nby Dorit Geva\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Dorit Geva\nTitle: Conscription Family and the Modern State\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Comparative politics\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2013\nISBN-13: 9781107024984\nISBN-10: 1107024986\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe development of modern military conscription systems is usually seen as a response to countries'' security needs, and as reflection of national political ideologies like civic republicanism or democratic egalitarianism. This study of conscription politics in France and the United States in the first half of the twentieth century challenges such common sense interpretations. Instead, it shows how despite institutional and ideological dif.