The Military-State-Society Symbiosis

by Karsten,Peter; Karsten,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780815332374
• ISBN10: 0815332378
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems "serve" nations; they may also "reflect" them. Soldiers are "enlisted"; they may also be said to "self-select." Military units have "missions"; they also have "interests". In an older, more traditional military history, while the second reflects a newer approach. Although each statement in the pairs may be said to be true, the former speak from the framework of the military sciences; the latter, from the framework of the social and behavioral sciences. The military systems of our past differ from one another over time, in political origins, size, missions, and technological and tactical fashions, but to a great extent their historical experiences have been more noticeably similar than they were different. When we ask questions about the recruiting, training, or motivating of military systems, or of those systems' interactionswith civilian governments and with the greater society, as do the essays in these five volumes of reading on "The Military and Society" we are struck by the almost timeless patterns of continuity and similarity of experience. In each of these volumes approximately half of the essays selected deal with the experience in the United States; the other half, with the experiences of other states and times, enabling the reader to engage in comparative analysis.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	p. vii
Volume Introduction	p. ix
The Nature of Athenian Hoplite Democracy	p. 1
War and the Birth of the Nation State	p. 17
Middle-Class Society and the Rise of Military Professionalism: The Dutch Army, 1589-1609	p. 37
Horses, Firearms, and Political Power in Pre-Colonial West Africa	p. 62
A Reexamination of the Causes of Plains Warfare	p. 83
The Collision of Military Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England	p. 97
A New Look at Colonial Militia	p. 123
Pennsylvania Revolutionary Officers and the Federal Constitution	p. 135
The Wisconsin National Guard in the Milwaukee Riots of 1886	p. 153
Black Soldiers on the White Frontier: Some Factors Influencing Race Relations	p. 172
The Alleged Isolation of U.S. Army Officers in the Late 19th Century	p. 178
For a Socio-Historical Approach to the Study of Western Military Culture	p. 193
Militarism and Militarization in the Public Schools, 1900-1972	p. 219
"Some Furious Outbursts of Riot": Returned Soldiers and Queensland's "Red Flag" Disturbances, 1918-1919	p. 239
The Free Corps Movement in Post-World War I Europe	p. 263
The Veteran in the Electoral Process: The House of Representatives	p. 276
The Convergence of Military and Civilian Occupational Structures: Evidence from Studies of Military Retired Employment	p. 295
Military Service and Racial Attitudes of White Veterans	p. 315
The Relation of the French Peasant Veterans of the American Revolution to the Fall of Feudalism in France, 1789-1792	p. 337
Acknowledgments	p. 349
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