Fighting for Rights : : Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship / / Ronald R. Krebs.
Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a "school for the nation." Debates over who serves continue to arouse passion today because the military's participation policies are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the politics of identity an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 list, 7 line figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Archival Sources and Abbreviations
- 1. A School for the Nation?
- 2. The Power of Military Service
- Part I: The IDF and the Making of Israel. The Jewish State and Its Arab Minorities
- Introduction
- 3. Confronting a Land with People
- 4. Two Roads to Jerusalem
- 5. Military Rites, Citizenship Rights, and Republican Rhetoric
- Conclusion
- Part II. The Perpetual Dilemma: Race and the U.S. Armed Forces
- Introduction
- 6. Great War, Great Hopes, and the Perils of Closing Ranks
- 7. Good War, Cold War, and the Limits of Liberalism
- Conclusion
- 8. Unusual Duties, Usual Rights: Soldiering and Citizenship
- Notes
- Index