W. J. Reader 'At Duty's Call' (Paperback) Studies in Imperialism

Description: Further DetailsTitle: 'At Duty's Call'Condition: NewSubtitle: A Study in Obsolete PatriotismAuthor: W. J. ReaderFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0719097533EAN: 9780719097539ISBN: 9780719097539Publisher: Manchester University PressGenre: HistoryTopic: Military HistoryRelease Date: 08/01/1988Description: The Victorian private solider was a despised figure. A working man had to be desperate indeed to take the Queen’s shilling. Yet in the first sixteen months of the Great War two and a half million men from the UK and many more from the empire, flocked to the colours – without any form of legal compulsion. There had never been a volunteer army like it.What was in the air of England in the generation or so before 1914 to bring about such collective exultation? How did it come about that, in a society which – in oft-proclaimed contrast to Germany – rejected conscription and prided itself on having no taint of militarism, men could be induced to volunteer in such numbers? The nation’s general state of mind, system of values and set of attitudes derived largely from the upper middle class, which had emerged and become dominant during the nineteenth century. The book examines the phenomenon of 1914 and the views held by people of that class, since it was under their leadership that the country went to war.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 259gBook Series: Studies in ImperialismRelease Year: 1988 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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