عنوان

From Byron to bin Laden :

(Number (ISBN

0674982207

(Number (ISBN

9780674982208

Erroneous ISBN

0674979567

Erroneous ISBN

9780674979567

Title Proper

From Byron to bin Laden :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a history of foreign war volunteers /

First Statement of Responsibility

Nir Arielli.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (295 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Only a nation in arms? "foreigners" in military service before 1815 -- Attractive conflicts: the changing ideological landscape -- A search for meaning: deciphering motivations -- Thoughts of home: a typology of volunteer-state relations -- Controlling the flow: governmental responses, legislation, and support networks -- Winning wars? assessing military significance -- The dark side: troublemakers, soldiers of misfortune, and terrorists -- Links in a chain: memory and myth.

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Text of Note

What makes people fight and risk their lives for a country other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as the poet Lord Byron, the writer George Orwell, the Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara, and the young Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden all turn to foreign military service? From Byron to bin Laden makes a historian's examines the phenomenon of war volunteers who have travelled abroad to fight on the basis of a personal decision, without being sent by their governments and not strictly for the sake of material gain. Although fighting for very different causes, these volunteers shared a number of commonalities; they tended to superimpose their beliefs and perceptions on the wars they joined, while a personal search for meaning invariably underlined their actions. Through a comprehensive study of the history of foreign volunteering from the wars of the French Revolution to the present, the book opens up a broad range of questions that relate to individual motivations, ideology, gender, state-citizen relations, international law, military significance, radicalization and the memory of war.--

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctvq4q31

Title

From Byron to bin Laden.

International Standard Book Number

9780674979567

Foreign enlistment-- History.

Military service, Voluntary-- History.

Soldiers-- Psychology.

Foreign enlistment.

Freiwilliger

HISTORY-- Military-- Other.

Krieg.

Military service, Voluntary.

Motivation

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- General.

Soldiers-- Psychology.

Söldner.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Military Science.

HIS-- 027000

HIS-- 027130

HIS-- 037030

POL-- 011000

POL-- 042000

POL-- 069000

TEC-- 025000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Arielli, Nir,1975-

Date of Transaction

20200822122118.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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